Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) [B2024]

2023 PB in nice clean condition. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE. "A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression." -Vanity Fair. "A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed." -Esquire.

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 endless wealth-all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. Hernan Diaz's TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another-and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

From recent mixed Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "​Hernan Diaz literally spent three hundred pages completely pulling the rug out from under me, and honestly? I want to thank him for it. There were moments in the first half where I felt totally lost, and the dry prose of the second section almost made me lose steam. But trust the process! The confusion of the setup is 100% worth the absolute payoff in the final thirty pages. When that last piece of the puzzle drops into place, everything you just read completely changes shape. This book is an absolute masterclass in narrative manipulation."; "Oh my lord this book is boring as hell. I got a quarter in and let it go...."; " This book did not disappoint. The concept is interesting and unique and definitely keeps you guessing. Multiple perspectives makes it semi ambiguous and gives the reader a lot of chew on. I was enthralled by the third and fourth part- my jaw was even hitting the floor. Very different for me but in the best way."