![]() But I wanted to explore how that privilege came to be and what sort of narratives it relied on to perpetuate itself. ![]() "There are many novels centered on class, of course-consider our rich tradition of novels of manners. "Even if money plays such an important part in the American imagination, I was surprised to see so few novels dealing directly with it," Diaz told Veranda about his novel. Diaz wanted to understand the history of money in America. The four narratives compete for the truth within Trust-and it's a magnificently constructed literary puzzle about power and American wealth. In another, we read Ida's memoir, and in the last, a diary by Mildred Bevel, Andrew's wife. There's three other sections: in one, Bevel, displeased with his fictional portrayal in Bonds, decides to write his own memoir, and hires a ghostwriter, Ida. But how did they come by their vast fortune? That's the question at the center of a 1937 novel, Bonds, that all of the elite of New York has read, based on the tale of financier Andrew Bevel.īut the story doesn't end there. The first: Benjamin, a Wall Street tycoon, and Helen, the daughter of eccentric aristocrats, are at the top of the social scene in 1920s New York City. ![]() Trust, one of T&C's must-read books of spring 2022, is the story of a Wall Street tycoon in the 1920s told in four layered narratives. ![]()
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