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(DIAZ) Hernan Diaz ~ Trust: Numbered First Edition, Signed By Author

Author ~ Hernan Diaz

Title ~ Trust

Edition ~ Numbered First Edition 

ISBN ~ 9781529074499

Publisher ~ Picador

Published ~ 2022-08-04

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 406

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Used, Very Good

Pulitzer Prize Winner Hernan Diaz. First Edition, First printing with complete number line. Signed and numbered ~ 1291 out of 1500. Very clean with no inscriptions or notes, Red boards with black text. Dust jacket and book in very good condition with minimal wear

Categories ~ #ContemporaryFiction #Historical #Literary #1920NewYork #Greed #Fiction #NumberedFirstEdition #FirstEdition #Signed #HernanDiaz #9781529074499

From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth 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 brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But the secrets around their affluence and grandeur incites gossip. Rumors about Benjamin's financial maneuvers and Helen's reclusiveness start to spread--all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. At what cost have they acquired their immense fortune?

This is the mystery at the center of a successful 1938 novel entitled Bonds, which all of New York seems to have read. But it isn't the only version.

Hernan Diaz's Trust brilliantly puts the story of these characters into conversation with other accounts--and in tension with the life and perspective of a young woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that becomes more exhilarating and profound with each new layer and revelation. Provocative and propulsive, Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the reality-warping gravitational pull of money and how power often manipulates facts. An elegant, multifaceted epic that recovers the voices buried under the myths that justify our foundational inequality,...

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