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  1. 'Trust' review: The truth is slippery in Hernan Diaz's complex novel

    Book Reviews. You can't 'Trust' this novel. And that's a very good thing. May 12, 2022 11:27 AM ET. ... Trust is an ingeniously constructed historical novel with a postmodern point. Throughout ...

  2. Book Review: 'Trust,' by Hernan Diaz

    Trust: both a moral quality and a financial arrangement, as though virtue and money were synonymous. ... The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors and critics talk about the latest news in ...

  3. Review: Hernan Diaz's myth-debunking puzzle novel 'Trust'

    Andrew Bevel, the elusive Manhattan financier at the center of Hernan Diaz's " Trust," is all story, no substance. A 6-feet-tall stack of $100 bills dressed in a Savile Row suit, Bevel's ...

  4. "Trust," by Hernan Diaz, Reviewed: An Enthralling Tour de Force

    As an American epic, Trust gives The Great Gatsby a run for its money. Published in 2017, Diaz's debut, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Trust fulfills that book's promise, and then some. A finance titan in the early 20th century, Bevel has built spectacularly on fortunes amassed by his ...

  5. Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Trust. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was translated into more than twenty languages, and was one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 books of the year and Literary Hub's ...

  6. TRUST

    TRUST. A clever and affecting high-concept novel of high finance. A tale of wealth, love, and madness told in four distinct but connected narratives. Pulitzer finalist Diaz's ingenious second novel—following In the Distance (2017)—opens with the text of Bonds, a Wharton-esque novel by Harold Vanner that tells the story of a reclusive man ...

  7. We Tell Ourselves Stories About Money to Live

    Trust is an audacious period piece that—over the course of four acts, each framed as a "book"—seeks to undo the hardened conventions undergirding myths about American power. And it deftly ...

  8. Review: Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Review: Trust by Hernan Diaz Reviewed by Josh Zimmerer Riverhead Books. 2022. 416 pages. Toward the end of Hernan Diaz's new novel, Trust, Mildred Bevel—the recurrent dying wife of the novel's towering figure, Andrew Bevel—contemplates an unseen church bell's melody, writing that its notes function "like a retrograde or a palindrome."

  9. Book review of Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Like a tower of gifts waiting to be unwrapped, Trust offers a multitude of rewards to be discovered and enjoyed, its sharp observations so finely layered as to demand an immediate rereading. The second novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz (In the Distance), Trust consists of four distinct but related parts.Like Kate Atkinson's Life After Life or the Netflix series "Russian Doll ...

  10. Hernan Diaz on 'Trust' and Money in Fiction

    Hernan Diaz's second novel, "Trust," is four books in one. Our reviewer, Michael Gorra, calls it "intricate, cunning and consistently surprising.". It starts with a novel inside the ...

  11. Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Following his beguiling, Pulitzer prize-shortlisted fiction debut, In the Distance (2017), which concerned a young Swedish immigrant walking away from California in the mid-nineteenth century in search of his brother, Hernan Diaz has turned his fountain pen and large-format notebooks (his media of choice) to the roar, boom and crash of the 1920s. The Booker-longlisted Trust is a quadriptych, a ...

  12. Book Marks reviews of Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Trust is a glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery ... He spins a larger parable, then, plumbing sex and power, causation and complicity. Mostly, though, Trust is a literary page-turner, with a wealth of puns and elegant prose, fun as hell to read. Read Full Review >>.

  13. Hernan Diaz's anticipated novel 'Trust' probes the illusion of money

    "Trust" is a book spun from four narratives - a novel wrought from the tale of the life of Andrew Bevel, a financial baron during the 1929 stock market crash, then his attempt to write his own ...

  14. Trust by Hernan Diaz: Summary and reviews

    Book Summary. 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 ...

  15. Trust: Book Summary and Ending Explained

    Trust, a novel by Hernan Diaz published in 2022, delves into the life of Andrew Bevel, a financier who rises to immense wealth by betting against the 1929 stock market crash. The book garnered attention by being longlisted for the Booker Prize, and it's the author's second novel after the success of In the Distance, a finalist for the ...

  16. Review

    May 17, 2022 at 10:36 a.m. EDT. Hernan Diaz's new book, " Trust," is about an early-20th-century investor. Or at least it seems to be. Everything about this cunning story makes a mockery of ...

  17. All Book Marks reviews for Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Perhaps Trust, in the end, makes a surprisingly un-postmodern case for what the novel can do. It can deliver discrete, luminous sensations. It can make one subjectivity clear at a time. And it can help you appreciate experience—your hand in front of your face—before it disappears. Read Full Review >>.

  18. Trust (novel)

    Trust (novel) Trust. (novel) Trust is a 2022 novel written by Hernan Diaz. [2][3][4][5][6] The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional look at a secretive financier and his wife.

  19. Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    — Chicago Review of Books "A multifaceted saga of class, ... Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker's 12 Essential Reads of the Year and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year. Trust is currently being developed as a limited series for HBO. Diaz's previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ...

  20. Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    Herman Diaz's 2023 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Trust" absorbed me from beginning to end. For several days, I was captivated -- couldn't wait to get to it. This is a rarity for me. "Trust" is largely set in the financial district of New York City in the years surrounding the Great Depression. Here is a bare-bones summary of the story.

  21. 'Trust' Book Review

    May 11, 2023 3:39 PM. Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books, 416 pp., $17) E very now and then a work of fiction comes along that captures the attention of both the public and critics. Such is ...

  22. Review of Trust by Hernan Diaz

    The last section is Mildred's, and the best. The thematic premise of Trust is immediately signaled by its double entendre title and table of fake contents: the lies of fiction (wink wink), the elisions of history. The novel is like a feminist retelling of a classic, male-oriented story, except that the original story is also one that Diaz wrote.

  23. Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Trust. by Hernan Diaz. Publication Date: May 2, 2023. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Paperback: 416 pages. Publisher: Riverhead Books. ISBN-10: 0593420322. ISBN-13: 9780593420324. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.

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