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MARRON W. FORT Chemical Engineer Newburyport, Mass...
Charley Gray, who grew up in a small town which hears a striking similarity to Newburyport, Massachusetts, is a junior executive in a staid old New York bank. During a critical week in his life, when the turning-point of his career in the shape of a possible vice-presidency looms ahead, a chain of circumstances leads him mentally and physically back to his home town. Most of the book is a long flashback describing Charley Gray's childhood and youth...
...been about the lives and locales he has known from boyhood. He thinks B.F.'s Daughter, which preceded Point of No Return, failed to come off because its locale, wartime Washington, was a transient experience for him. The middle-class axis he draws on best runs from Newburyport to Boston to New York...
...Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn't let anything good come of it. Charley recalls that when, in the middle of the kid-glove slugfest for the vice-presidency at the bank...
...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 ("my metabolism or something"), and even so his first drafts are always two or three times too long...