The Washington Post, January 10th, 1988
WICKFORD POINT By John P. Marquand (1939) IN HIS day John P. Marquand was one of the most popular and celebrated of American novelists, but Marquand's day was a long time ago. Nobody seems to read him now except Yardleys and other superannuated white Anglo-Saxon Protestants; his novels occupied prominent places on my parents' bookshelves, first in Virginia and then in Rhode Island, and last spring when I visited my uncle in Hawaii, of all places, what should I find but a full shelf of Marquand, of all people. Perhaps time, or the times, has passed us by; but at least so far as Marquand is conc...
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