Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception.
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth--a...show more
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Loved the mystery. Seems like you are reading a story about actually people from multiple perspectives.
This book was a rollercoaster, and in the end - it just didn't do it for me.
It is separated into 4 parts, and only 2 of them were enjoyable. It starts with a novella that all of NY has read that was actually lovely. I loved the characters of Benjamin and Helen. The second part seemed to be a manuscript, and was not communicated well in the audiobook version. I was confused by both the bland writing and the strange comments. In the 3rd portion we...read more
It is separated into 4 parts, and only 2 of them were enjoyable. It starts with a novella that all of NY has read that was actually lovely. I loved the characters of Benjamin and Helen. The second part seemed to be a manuscript, and was not communicated well in the audiobook version. I was confused by both the bland writing and the strange comments. In the 3rd portion we...read more
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The Argentine-American Writer Hernan Diaz’s novel, Trust, is a critique of the classic autobiographies of “Great American Men” (Diaz 270). I read the book on the Kindle. Autobiographies of White American Men such as Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, Woodrow Wilson, Roger Babson, William Zackary Irving, Herbert Hoover, and Henry Adams are all mentioned in Diaz’s novel (Diaz 270, ...read more
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