Trust

The book opens with Bonds, a popular 1937 novel about Benjamin Rask, a withdrawn man who makes a colossal fortune trading shares in the early twentieth century and keeps it through the crash of 1929, while his wife, Helen, the child of eccentric aristocrats, falls into mental decline. Other documents follow: the unfinished memoir of Andrew Bevel, a celebrated New York financier whose life echoes Rask's; the recollections of Ida Partenza, a magazine writer determined to sort fact from fiction; and the diary of Bevel's wife, Mildred. Each version shades and contradicts the others, and together they ask how wealth was made, what a marriage hid, and who gets to set the story down in print.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, from the 1920s

First published

2022

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9780593420317 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9780593420324 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9781529074529 (Picador, United Kingdom)

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