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The book delved deeply into the inner lives of a wealthy family living in a large summer house on the coast of Massachusetts. Both their servants and the children depicted were described very well. The interaction with parents and grandparents as well as with neighbors, aunts, cousins and uncles were very moving. The beginning of the novel took place during the first days of preparation for World War II and the effects of the forthcoming war's impact on family members. Later parts of the novel followed some of the siblings and their children into further development as adults. The most affecting section described the development of one of the grandsons as he tried to return to his life as a young man in the midst of his family although he was already affected by mental illness. His will to restore the home as he had remembered it helped to restore his positive view on life. The life of the Scottish nanny of one of the children was also a moving history of the role of caregivers in the world of the wealthy families in pre-war America.


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The End of the Point A Novel PS edition by Elizabeth Graver Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

This novel was beautifully written and very moving. I feel like I know these characters as real people and at the same time they are representative of recognizable "types;" in fact I found myself comparing each of them to members of my family and friends I have known from similar backgrounds. The family's connection to their summer home is so deep and rendered tangible by the author's considerable skills. I loved this book.
Even though at the end of the book all things come together ,so to speak, it was not easy to remain interested in the story. The plot was very ambiguous and the story seemed disjointed.
I almost stopped reading several times, but plowed on through. I can't say that I enjoyed this book.
Loved the historical aspect of this book, as well as the wonderful story itself. A very different time and place, with "nurses" caring for their children, basically raising them, instead of the parents' participation on a full-time basis. Not like my life -- and I wouldn't want that situation!
Trying to keep life as normal as possible, this wonderful family returns from New Jersey to their summer home on Cape Cod just as the US enters WWII. "If it weren't safe, we would not have come," says the mother, for her own comfort as well as those around her. The reader experiences the unfolding of events, big and small,over that summer and the years that follow. Despite the many characters, the point of view is not omnipotent, It allows us into the minds and behind the eyes of several characters, transitioning so smoothly that we hardly notice. It is the story of life, serene and tumultuous. In the end you want to give the human race a round of applause for all it can and does do in the face of such varied experience, coming out at the other end pretty much glad it happened.
The book is good. Not great, but a good read, telling the story of 3 generations of a family who live in a summer home. Others here have given the outline of the plot, so no more about that needs to be said. I liked the book -but I did find it a bit - convoluted - at times. Starting in 1942k where you meet the family, in their summer home in wartime, with an army base now established on the Point, it then skips to the next generation in Part 2 with no further development from Part 1. The children are grown, the Nanny's love interest isn't is now just a moment in her past. Then on to the final, where themes from the past are more or less solved

The style of writing is a bit pedantic at times - but over all holds your interest. I liked the book but can't rave about it
The story follows several generations in and around one family, as they visit their vacation house on a peninsula once owned by American Indians. The tension span is a little compromised, as the author takes you along the individual paths of the characters that she, seamingly random, high lights. As interesting developments in the life of these people stay abscent, despite my expectation as a reader, one wonders why she picked (created) these characters and not others in the abundant family. When the story shifts to another generation, with focus on another individual, you expect again that something interesting will happen in this particular life. When again this disappoints, I started to lose interest. Reading this book felt like watching a calm sea on a summer's day for 8 hours straight. When doing this for a little while, watching a calm sea is an activity that relaxes and can help to let go of all mental exercise. But one wouldn't stare at a calm sea for 8 hours. The same applies to this story. It was a long calm sea experience. Yet from a book, I expect a little more mental excitement. I was waiting for the whale to pop up, or the weather to turn dramatically, into a dangerous storm. It didn't. Nothing much happened that wasn't entirely ordinary.
Graver's multi-generational tale started with an intriguing slow build that quickly eroded like a storm struck beach cliff. It falters by being too ambitious and self-serious. The family it chronicles are not "exceptional" as the book's description claims. They are largely unsympathetic, bland and entitled who punctuate their lives with loud moans and complaints. The whole lot of them shun change and diversity. To gloss over this fact, the author employs Scottish house servants in a lame attempt to communicate the family's largesse. This does not work and is actually uncomfortable.

The tritely clever title alludes to near continuous changes at their summer community and in their lives that they cannot objectively recognize. The plot mainly follows Helen who we learn to detest very early on and her son Charlie who we learn deserves his mother. Having to follow these two is like inviting the most obnoxious couple you know for a five day weekend. Graver tries to make multiple points .... you cannot escape yourself, change is inevitable, and surroundings cannot alone make someone happy. Yet, on this last point, this unattractive brood continues to return again and again.
The book delved deeply into the inner lives of a wealthy family living in a large summer house on the coast of Massachusetts. Both their servants and the children depicted were described very well. The interaction with parents and grandparents as well as with neighbors, aunts, cousins and uncles were very moving. The beginning of the novel took place during the first days of preparation for World War II and the effects of the forthcoming war's impact on family members. Later parts of the novel followed some of the siblings and their children into further development as adults. The most affecting section described the development of one of the grandsons as he tried to return to his life as a young man in the midst of his family although he was already affected by mental illness. His will to restore the home as he had remembered it helped to restore his positive view on life. The life of the Scottish nanny of one of the children was also a moving history of the role of caregivers in the world of the wealthy families in pre-war America.