![]() ![]() ![]() Hernan Diaz’s Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with each other-and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. But there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. This is the mystery at the center of Bonds , a successful 1938 novel that all of New York seems to have read. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth-all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. A literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, Trust is a novel that challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.Įven through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. ![]()
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