With its focus on the relationships among the citizens of one small town, Point of No Return evokes both Jane Austen and Sinclair Lewis. The crucialpoint frame, however, embodies Marquand's stronger stress on the world of work. This balance places Marquand's novels among a number of American postwar novels (Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1944, for example) whose protagonists must adjust to the triviality of their jobs in the civilian world. At the same time, the rich girl/ambitious boy plot makes this novel Marquand's strongest evocation of F. Scott.....
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