THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of readers literallydefined their lives through Gail Sheehy s landmark bestsellerPassages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, butinstead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult lifecycle. . . People are taking longer to grow up and much longer todie. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heartdisease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too,can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The olddemarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-oneand ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In NewPassages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely newfrontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life."Stop and recalculate,"Sheehy writes. "Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancyof another life." Instead of declining, men and women who embrace aSecond Adulthood are progressing through entirely new passages intolives of deeper meaning, renewed playfulness, andcreativity--beyond both male and female menopause. Through hundredsof personal and group interviews, national surveys of professionalsand working-class people, and fresh findings extracted from fiftyyears of U.S. Census reports, Sheehy vividly dramatizes these newlydeveloping stages. Combining the scholar s ability to synthesizedata with the novelist s gift for storytelling, she allows us tomake sense of our own lives by understanding others like Passagestells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. Thisgroundbreaking work is certain to awaken and permanently alter theway we think about ourselves."SHEEHY CLEARLY STATES IDEAS ABOUTLIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN AS CLEARLY STATED."--Los AngelesTimes Book Review"AN OPTIMISTIC ANALYSIS OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT INPESSIMISTIC TIMES. . . It is grounded in the economic andpsychological realities that make adult life so complextoday."--The New York Times Book Review
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