Harold vanner5/8/2023 He isn’t an obviously dynamic personality. The degree of overlap between Benjamin Rask in the novel and Andrew Bevel in the memoir is for the reader to assess as the book goes on, though not a great deal has been done to bring curiosity to the boil, or even above room temperature.īenjamin Rask, an only child born in the 1870s, is the heir to a long-established family made wealthy by the tobacco trade. Trust is made up of four sections, the first presented as a complete novel ( Bonds by Harold Vanner), the second as a draft memoir from the 1930s, both of them concerning a New York financier with a gift for reading and manipulating the market. Forster was that he was a dab hand at warming the pot, ‘but there ain’t going to be no tea.’ Readers of Hernan Diaz’s new novel get their first sniff of a tea bag about halfway through the book’s 400-odd pages. Wonderfully wrong-headed criticism of E.M.
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