Trust
By Hernan Diaz
417 pages
What’s it about?
This book is separated into four distinct sections. Each section is a separate manuscript about an infamous financier and his wife. The first section is a novel-within-a-novel, followed by an unfinished biography, a memoir, and then a diary. Each is a different version of the lives of Andrew and Mildred Bevel. Most of the novel takes place in the early part of the 1900’s leading up to the Great Depression.What did it make me think about?
What and who should we trust? It made me think about a lot more but I do not want to give anything away….Should I read it?
This book sounds and looks a little intimidating. It was actually pretty easy to read with the exception of the second section, “My Life”, which did drag. It leaves you slightly reeling as to what you just read, and exactly what you should be gleaning from it, but it certainly has a lot to say. This was not hard to read but it definitely is written to make you think- not necessarily to entertain. This book will defiantly appeal to those who fancy themselves as “thinkers”. So much to talk about when you finish this novel. Hernan Diaz- how did you come up with this one?Quote-
“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail- we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”What’s it about?
This book is separated into four distinct sections. Each section is a separate manuscript about an infamous financier and his wife. The first section is a novel-within-a-novel, followed by an unfinished biography, a memoir, and then a diary. Each is a different version of the lives of Andrew and Mildred Bevel. Most of the novel takes place in the early part of the 1900’s leading up to the Great Depression.
What did it make me think about?
What and who should we trust? It made me think about a lot more but I do not want to give anything away….
Should I read it?
This book sounds and looks a little intimidating. It was actually pretty easy to read with the exception of the second section, “My Life”, which did drag. It leaves you slightly reeling as to what you just read, and exactly what you should be gleaning from it, but it certainly has a lot to say. This was not hard to read but it definitely is written to make you think- not necessarily to entertain. This book will defiantly appeal to those who fancy themselves as “thinkers”. So much to talk about when you finish this novel. Hernan Diaz- how did you come up with this one?
Quote-
“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail- we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
