A collection of four books in one about a Wall Street businessman in the 1920s captures our weakness for self-deception
, is a collection of four manuscripts at different stages of completion, and they tell different versions of the story of a Wall Street businessman and his wife in the years leading up to the Great Depression. In Bonds, ostensibly a bestselling novel authored by one Harold Vanner, a monkish mogul manages to make a massive windfall during the 1929 stock market crash while his wife tragically succumbs to mental illness far away in Switzerland.
You’re propelled forward by the twists and turns of the novel’s form, the conviction that Diaz has another trick up his sleeve Andrew is a run-of-the-mill capitalist in many ways, morbidly focused on the pure fantasy of money. A contemporary reader wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he thinks making a quick buck over generations is his family’s manifest destiny. His autobiography is straight out of Ayn Rand, speckled with self-serving maxims and condescending remarks about his wife’s philanthropy .
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