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Point of No Return

by John P. Marquand · 1949

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Charles Gray has come to a pivotal point in his career: he is competing for the vice presidency of the select private bank for which he works. While waiting for the fateful decision, Gray returns to the small Massachusetts town where he grew up, to try to find out how he has reached this point, and to decide which way to go.

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adult
Length
long · 559 pages

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