![]() ![]() And the fourth – well, it doesn’t need to be spoiled in a review. The third is a memoir by Ida Partenza, a successful writer who got her start as a ghostwriter of Andrew’s memoirs. The second is Andrew’s furious notes on the errors in Vanner’s book. The first is a novel by Harold Vanner, which transpires to be a fictionalised version of the Bevels’ marriage in which their names are Benjamin and Helen Rask. ![]() The book is split into four unequal parts. ![]() But the trouble is that Mr Diaz focuses on the wrong things, thus undermining the effectiveness of his point. Specifically, the money earned on Wall Street before and after the great crash of 1929, by Andrew Bevel, financier extraordinaire, who had a strange, sexless marriage with his unusual wife Mildred. Mr Diaz uses the same precise structure to unravel – or cover up – a similar mystery, except that his god is the modern one: money. Structurally and thematically Trust is an updated version of Mr Pears’ historical thriller from 1997, in which narrators of varying levels of reliability discuss a mysterious woman during the English civil war, who may or may not be the resurrected Christ. Hernan Diaz owes Iain Pears, the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, a steak dinner at the very least. ![]()
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