New passages : mapping your life across time
Gail Sheehy.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Random House, c1995.
- xxv, 498 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Sequel to: Passages.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-473) and index.
People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. 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 The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty- five--are hopelessly out of date.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.