About this title: Based on seven years of research, extensive surveys of professionals and working-class Americans, and hundreds of personal interviews, Sheehy proposes these new themes for the adult life cycle: that there are no longer predictable milestones within adulthood, that no one should become dependent on one source of identity, that most people are unprepared for the years she calls "second adulthood," which comes in the years remaining after the age of 50, and that the meaning of life is to "find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind."
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Edition: 1ST,
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Edition: 1ST,
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 01/1996
ISBN-13:9780394589138ISBN:0394589130
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
"I read this for my developmental psychology class, and it told me that I am like most people in my generation in not feeling the slightest bit like an adult until I reached age 30 and had my "passage to first adulthood"...before this I imagined that everyone else felt grown up already and I was the only one lagging behind.
It also has many positive things to say about our "second adulthood", which starts around age 45, and is likely to go into our nineties, since we're all going to live so long, unless we get cancer or heart disease...
Doesn't have much to offer to people who are young/under 30 now. Since this book was written in 1995, and was apparently meant to be read immediately, rather than to become a classic, it is speaking to each generation about what they are going through RIGHT NOW...which now means, what they went through more than ten years ago."
Publishers Weekly "A sweeping vision of our personal futures...dynamic, optimistic."
New York Times Book Review, 06/25/1995 "'New Passages' is a vast improvement over its predecessor, because it is grounded in the economic and psychological realities that make adult life so complex today." -- Carol Tavris
Lesley Stahl "Brilliant. One of Sheehy's main points is that old ain't old anymore. As you read the book you say 'that's me' over and over. Whether it's about memory or sex or ambition or stamina--it's all so hopeful."
Shana Alexander "An uncanny, remarkable and heroic piece of work. It comes just in time, highlighting the future and illuminating the past with equal brilliance."
Jean Harris "An important new look at the ages of man. It can help pry loose some of the myths and mind-sets that presently cause so many of us to founder."
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