Point of No Return SADB5740067745

Author: John P. Marquand
Publisher: Bantam A987
Year: 1952 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.35
Condition: Very Good Plus. Not read

Genre: Fiction/Novel

SKU: 70124149E

Pages: 565

A #1New York Timesbestseller by a Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist: A successful Manhattan banker is haunted by his humble New England roots.

Raised in the small town of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles Gray has worked long and hard to become a vice president at the privately owned Stuyvesant Bank in Manhattan. But at the most crucial moment of his career, when his focus should be on reading his bosss intentions and competing with his chief rival for promotion, Charles finds himself hopelessly distracted by the past.

Years ago, the Gray family was featured in a sociological study of their hometown. Charles, his sister, and their parents were classified as members of the lower-upper class, the unspoken strains of their tenuous social status cast in stark black and white. A chance encounter with the author of the study fills Charless head with memoriesand when a business matter compels him to return to Clyde, it seems as if fate is intent on turning back the clock. As he reflects on the defining moments of his youth, Charles contends with one of the central mysteries of existence: how our lives can feel both predetermined and random at the same time.

Published in 1949,Point of No Returnis a brilliant study of character and place heralded by theNew York Timesas further proof that its author is one of the most important living American novelists.