There will be cleverer minds than mine who will review this and dwell on the author’s commentary about power, of the blurring of fact and fiction and the quiet corruption money and power can bring. The story reveals itself much like a set of Matryoshka dolls in reverse, a not quite identical story becoming larger and clearer as each part is read. After that is A Memoir, Remembered, a memoir of Andrew Bevel’s secretary Ida and finally comes Futures, the private diary of Bevel’s wife, Mildred.Įach part has it’s own unique voice, whilst fitting seamlessly together, something that could have easily not worked. Next comes the unpublished auto-biography of Andrew Bevel, whose life bares an uncanny similarity to the Rasks. The first is Bonds, a novel by Harold Vanner, which tells the story of 1920s power couple Benjamin and Helen Rask. But there are more sides to the story than one and each of them have to be told. Money, connections and the seemingly magic touch when it comes to playing the stock market. In a city devoted to making money and making stories like no other, where wealth means power, who gets to tell the truth? And to rise to the top of a glittering, destructive world, what – and who – do you have to sacrifice?Īndrew and Mildred Rask have it all. The second-generation Italian immigrant tasked with recording his life story.Īnd the writer who observes them from afar. The legendary Wall Street tycoon whose immense wealth gives him the power to do almost anything.
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