NEW PASSAGES(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of readers literally
defined their lives through Gail Sheehy s landmark bestseller
Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but
instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life
cycle. . . 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 de*ions 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and ending at sixty-five–are hopelessly out of date.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 and recalculate,”
Sheehy writes. “Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancy
of another life.” Instead of declining, men and women who embrace a
Second Adulthood are progressing through entirely new passages into
lives of deeper meaning, renewed playfulness, and
creativity–beyond both male and female menopause. Through hundreds
of personal and group interviews, national surveys of professionals
and working-class people, and fresh findings extracted from fifty
years of U.S. Census reports, Sheehy vividly dramatizes these newly
developing stages. 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 Passages
tells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. This
groundbreaking work is certain to awaken and permanently alter the
way we think about ourselves.”SHEEHY CLEARLY STATES IDEAS ABOUT
LIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN AS CLEARLY STATED.”–Los Angeles
Times Book 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.”–The New York Times Book Review