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Trust — Who Gets to Write the Past | The Book Brief Project
Trust looks like a novel about money, Wall Street and the construction of an enormous fortune. Hernan Diaz is more interested in something less visible: authorship — who gets to write the past, who gets edited out, and how power can turn one version of events into the version that survives.The novel is built from four competing accounts of the same financial dynasty, each revising what came before. A seemingly finished story gives way to Andrew Bevel’s attempt to replace it with a more flattering version of himself, then to the ghostwriter hired to help shape that narrative, and finally to…
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