TRUST by Hernan Diaz-Trust Me, Pass on this Tedious Read

Trust is a novel by Hernan Diaz.  His novel "Distance"was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (2017).  TRUST is set in the years preceding the Great Crash on Wall Street and hones in on Andrew Bevel, a financial tycoon who traversed financial disaster and outmaneuvered the mainstream.  Bevel's gains were at a time when the masses lost their savings and livelihoods.  Few, like Bevel prevailed, proving himself a prodigious wiz in the stocks and bonds biz.  His success did not go uncontested.  Many questioned his tactics and veracity in his business dealings.  The truth is TRUST is a bust, boring from start to finish. The book is written in four components.  The connection among the sections are varying vantages, all of the same main characters.  The supposed clever gimmick is revealed towards the conclusion at which point, it's besides the point.  Trust me, time spent on this laborious read doesn't pay out.  For those who think the synopsis intriguing and plan to read the book, stop reading my critique.  This is a spoiler alert.  The first section of Diaz's book is book within a book. "BONDS" by Harold Vanner about Helen and Benjamin Rask.  Vanner's "BONDS" rankled Bevel by fictitiously depicting the Bevels as Benjamin and Helen Rask very unflatteringly.  Bevel's rancor drives him to hire a ghost writer to write the story right, as dictated by him.  Ida Partenza is the young woman selected to do Beven's bidding.  We come to know Ida's hard knock life living in Brooklyn with her anarchist printer father.  Ida's resourcefulness leads her to write a faux history to thwart a perceived threat.  Ida's determination to bring depth to her benefactor and his deceased wife, serendipitously lea her to discover Mildred's diaries.  Mildred's version of events depicts lies that dismantle the picture her husband deemed to paint.  An excerpt from Mildred's journal reads, "The scheme lasted only for a few months.  But he {Bevel} made an incalculable fortune.  And the myth of Bevel grew till he became a god.  I called him a criminal".  Bank on the fact there will be scammers, revisionists and egoists who justify their actions by accepting the means justifying the end.  I was glad to come to the end of this relentless saga.