- American literature, Rich people, Fiction, Financial services industry
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 boundless 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.
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Grave, prestige, cool and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Hernán Díaz
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Random House Large Print, WAB
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780593541548
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“Because he had enjoyed almost every advantage since birth, one of the few privileges denied to Benjamin Rask was that of a heroic rise: his was not a story of an unbreakable will forging a golden destiny for itself out of little more than dross.”
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