New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time - Hardcover

Sheehy, Gail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394589130 ISBN 13: 9780394589138

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's international bestseller Passages, named by a Library of Congress survey as one of the most influential books of our times. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle.

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Review:

‘An optimistic analysis of adult development in pessimistic times... It is grounded in the economic and psychological realities that make adult life so complex today’
New York Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

‘STOP AND RECALCULATE,’ WRITES GAIL SHEEHY. ‘IMAGINE THE DAY YOU TURN 45 AS THE INFANCY OF ANOTHER LIFE

In the last twenty years a historic revolution has occurred in the adult lifecycle. Young people are waiting until their 30s to leave home and get married, more women are having children at 40 to leave home and get married, more women are having children at 40 or over, 50-year-old men are being forced into early retirement, 60-year-olds feel like 50, and 70-year-olds feel like 60. People are taking longer to grow up, and much longer to die.

Healthy men or women who reach age 50 can expect to live until 80 or 90. These people are now rejecting the whole notion of ‘mid-life decline’ and heading for a completely new frontier – a Second Adulthood full of new ideas, renewed enthusiasm, self-confidence and fulfilment.

But how are they coping with the new dilemmas and demands that Second Adulthood brings?

'New Passages' takes the stories of hundreds of people, backed up with extensive research and social analysis, to explore the new stages of adult life. Inspiring and informative, Gail Sheehy’s insights will not only help you make sense of your own life by understanding others, but will permanently alter the way you think about yourself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0394589130
• ISBN 13: 9780394589138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 498