New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (892 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345404459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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No more Gail Sheehy for me! Rehashing of the same info from other books. Disappointed.. "New Passages" according to Noni. Much better and more recent than the original Passages written in 1986. New Pasages is for the over New Passages Noni Much better and more recent than the original Passages written in 1986. New Pasages is for the over 40 oldies but goodies. Not a lot of information that I had not read before, still worth the read.. 0 oldies but goodies. Not a lot of information that I had not read before, still worth the read.. "She keeps going and going and going." according to A Customer. Gail Sheehy provides a new perspective on agingyet she repeats the same points continuously throughout the book. You get the main idea of her whole book in the prologue and learn nothing more after. If you are under She keeps going and going and going. A Customer Gail Sheehy provides a new perspective on agingyet she repeats the same points continuously throughout the book. You get the main idea of her whole book in the prologue and learn nothing more after. If you are under 40 this will bore and depress you like nothing else.. 0 this will bore and depress you like nothing else.
Combining the scholar's ability to synthesize data with the novelist's gift for storytelling, she allows us to make sense of our own lives by understanding others like us.New Passages tells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cyclePeople are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life."Stop an
In a few ways, this is a better book than its predecessor. She also addresses the main criticism that social scientists have made of her work?that large-scale studies have shown no evidence that most people go through the life stages that she describes?by explaining that people should go through these "passages" and that everyone who doesn't is "walking dead." These improvements aside, her prose still sounds like that of a second-rate astrologer, her advice is often contradictory, and her adulation of famous personalities verges on embarrassing. From Library Journal The author's previous blockbuster, Passages (LJ 5/15/76), introduced us all to the term "midlife crisis." In this sequel, Sheehy takes us beyond the midlife crisis to examine later life stages, with a short update on young adulthood in the 1990s. Nevertheless, this is a "critic-proof" book?if you haven't already done so