Captain Carter #2
Book
"WOMAN OUT OF TIME" CONTINUES! Captain Carter is back, and now the whole world knows it!...
Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen
Noel Monk and Joe Layden
Book
The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell...
Born to Drum: The Truth About the World's Greatest Drummers : from John Bonham and Keith Moon to Sheila E. and Dave Grohl
Book
The pulse of rock'n'roll-the drummer-finally gets its due in this unique, all-encompassing inside...
Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity & Truthfulness: Book Xxxvii of the Revival of the Religious Sciences
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and Anthony Shaker
Book
Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity & Truthfulness is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Revival of...
1500 Hotel Nights: A Black Comedy, the Straightforward Truth on the Absurd in Hotels, That Nobody Speaks Out
Book
An honest critique of hotels and restaurants is missing from bookshelves, and Daniel Tabbush would...
Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post
Feb 25, 2022
Trust is made up of four narratives about the same man. The first is a book written by Harold Vanner called ‘Bonds’. It tells the story of tycoon Benjamin Rask in the 1920’s and his role in the 1929 crash. It’s also about his wife, Helen, her love of the Arts, how she descends into mental illness and dies in a European asylum.
The second story is comprised of the notes that Andrew Revel, a Wall Street banker and tycoon, makes in order to write his autobiography. His wife Mildred also features, and her death from cancer, also in a treatment centre in Europe.
The third is written by Ida Partenza (my favourite part), where she is looking back on the time that she worked for Revel, ghost-writing his biography. She clearly intensely dislikes her employer, mainly because he lies throughout his storytelling, and is quite upfront about doing it. He’s also aware of her father being a political refugee from Italy, an anarchist, and there’s an underlying menace.
And the final part are the notes and diaries that Ida finds in the ‘present’ day written by Mildred, leading up to her death. They reveal the secrets that her husband would rather not know. Why these are still in a library that can be accessed by the public isn’t known, but the handwriting is pretty indecipherable, so that may well be the reason.
Obviously the first story is about the man in the last three, and we are asked to trust that the man who wrote the first is lying - and therefore trust that Andrew Revel is telling the truth. Clearly he isn’t. His wife’s notes back that up. Revel is a manipulative man, who doesn’t hesitate to ruin other people’s lives in order to protect his reputation.
I read this whole novel with horrified fascination. It’s a good one!
Behind Her Eyes
Book
Don't Trust This Book Don't Trust These People Don't Trust Yourself And whatever you do, DON'T give...
Point of No Return
Book
Marine Major Honey Thornton is nobody’s fool, so when she’s brought in for an off-the-books...