I am almost finished with the 3rd part of this four-part experimental novel, and it is possible I will never read the last part. It turned into a slog. The first part is a “sensational” novel about the main characters, Benjamin and Helen Rask. Presumably you want to read it because of the unimaginable luxury of a JP Morgan type financier in the roaring twenties, and the unhappy fate of his wife, submitted to quack mental illness cures of the period. But it is just dull. The discussions of finance are Econ 1… Maybe high school Econ, actually. Full of pat clichés about “capital.” The second part is Rask’s ghostwriter’s “rebuttal” memoir in the style of Andrew Carnegie’s The Gospel of Wealth. So pretty boring too. Then the point of view shifts to Ida Partenza, the ghostwriter of Rask’s rebuttal memoir. Trouble is, she and her poor Italian anarchist father are pretty boring also. It’s as if allusion to the really interesting history of the period was enough to make a novel readable. The fourth part is Helen Rask’s diary entries and notes, and skimming through them I was just like, “Wut?” So sorry, can’t recommend… it just seems to be missing some key elements of a good novel.