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...Marquand's latest epic has been reviewed in all of the important magazines, his face has graced the covers of two of them in the same week, and the royalties will undoubtedly make him a much richer man than he already is. Even more than in his previous novels, he deals with a subject which will interest millions of people who can easily fit themselves into the place of Charley Gray, Mr. Marquand's protagonist. In addition, "Point of No Return" is written in a style so slick and even that one glides through it effortlessly, like sliding down...
Charley Gray, like so many others of Mr. Marquand's fine, upstanding young men, is nevertheless a pretty cold fish. He does the right thing at the right time, has perfect control over his emotions, and never makes mistakes; one gets the impression that while he may feel himself caught in the rat-race of modern business society it is for him the most suitable of all possible ruts...
...there is the question of organization. The long flashback in the middle of the book sags perceptibly. After a couple of chapters one is perfectly willing to accept the author's word for the fact that the social strata in a small New England town are extremely solidified. Mr. Marquand, however, piles on more and more illustrations. Everything that happens to Charley Gray seems caused by the fact that he isn't quite on the top of the social ladder...
...many of Marquand's readers, Point of No Return will seem a little more troubling and pessimistic than most of his works. But Marquand thinks that man is slowly growing up and that man's hope lies in a prospect of greater maturity. "Most people," he said, "never grow up. The thing we've got to do in our institutions is try to build up more maturity. Mature people are happier. At least they can rationalize the world in such a way that they are not going to beat their heads against a wall. I certainly think...
Woods v. Rules. At 55, Novelist Marquand is still trying to win repose for himself but finds it a continuing and perhaps hopeless process, with daily ups & downs. He is 5 ft. ii in., with grey hair that is white about the temples, physically alert, and dieting to reduce a slight paunchiness. He and his second wife, Adelaide Hooker Marquand, and their three young children spend most of the year on his Kent's Island farm, four miles from Newburyport. When he is writing, he starts at 9:30 a.m. and dictates for four hours. That is his limit...