Marquand: An American Life

by Millicent Bell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316088285
• ISBN13: 9780316088282
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 537 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful introduction to a troubled author

After reading, "Point of No Return," I was interested in learning more about the author of this intriguing novel. Millicent Bell's literary biography fills the bill in spades. I came away with a much greater understanding of John P. Marquand, and how his life intersected with his characters, plot and theme of the book I had read. In addition, the biography offers analysis and commentary of the author's novels, which gave me a fuller critical perspective. The fact of Marquand's own unfulfilled life can be fruitfully read into the analysis of "Point of No Return" and his other novels, as well.