Eric
Trust isn't a typical novel; it's broken up into 4 mini-books all told from a different perspective and with a different voice. The first one is the longest and written like a (kinda old-fashioned, tedious) biography of a financial titan. The next three tell that same financial titan's story from different perspectives, filling in a lot of color and disillusioning a lot of the claims of the first mini-book.
I'd say the novel starts getting interesting once the 3rd mini-book starts revealing what's really going on in the first two books, and the 4th book finally provides some answers and closure to the story as a whole.
With that, I can't say I fully enjoyed reading Trust, however I have thought plenty about the novel since I finished it, both immediately after and as a talking-point to reference for a long while since. It's a great example of how all stories, like these mini-books, can be shaped to make reality fit whatever narrative the writer wants to tell.
By the end of the book you understand a lot more about what kind of person Andrew Bevel really was, and how the people in his life were much different than the original biography (book 1), and Andrew's follow-up autobiography (book 2), suggest.
Trust isn't a typical novel; it's broken up into 4 mini-books all told from a different perspective and with a different voice. The first one is the longest and written like a (kinda old-fashioned, tedious) biography of a financial titan. The next three tell that same financial titan's story from different perspectives, filling in a lot of color and disillusioning a lot of the claims of the first mini-book.
I'd say the novel starts getting interesting once the 3rd mini-book starts revealing what's really going on in the first two books, and the 4th book finally provides some answers and closure to the story as a whole.
With that, I can't say I fully enjoyed reading Trust, however I have thought plenty about the novel since I finished it, both immediately after and as a talking-point to reference for a long while since. It's a great example of how all stories, like these mini-books, can be shaped to make reality fit whatever narrative the writer wants to tell.
By the end of the book you understand a lot more about what kind of person Andrew Bevel really was, and how the people in his life were much different than the original biography (book 1), and Andrew's follow-up autobiography (book 2), suggest.