![]() ![]() Set in the years leading up to and following the 1929 stock market crash, the novel is in large part an investigation of capitalism’s intoxicating pull on the American consciousness. ![]() ![]() The first is a novelization of the couple’s life by Vanner the second is a memoir by Bevel himself the third is a first-person narrative by Bevel’s young secretary, Ida Partenza and the fourth is a diary by a character whom it would spoil the ending to identify. Trust, which follows Diaz’s 2017 Pulitzer-finalist debut, In the Distance, presents four takes on the story of Andrew Bevel, a fictional early-20th-century financial titan, and his wife, Mildred. After such dissimulation, the trustworthiness of the book, and perhaps of fiction in general, has been called into question. By the time one unpacks Diaz’s actual novel, its title comes to seem like a winking challenge. The book comes in a box bearing the cover image of another novel- Bonds by Harold Vanner-and inside are flaps announcing the titles of still other books. Critics receiving the prepublication galleys of Hernan Diaz’s new novel, Trust (Riverhead, May), may be forgiven for being confused. ![]()
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