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Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Passages Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Author: Gail Sheehy
At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s, an...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553232349
ISBN-10: 0553232347
Publication Date: 6/1977
Pages: 576
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3.7 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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What does it mean to be an adult? How do we learn to keep growing? Childhood and adolescence have been exhaustively documented, but after adolescence we are left to flounder is uncharted territory. Now Gail Sheehy identifies the predictable crises of adult life.
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What does it mean to be an adult? How do we learn to keep growing? Childhood and adolescence have been exhaustively documented, but after adolescence we are left to flounder in uncharted territory. Now Gail Sheehy identifies the predictable crises of adult life: Early Adulthood- leaving home, The Trying Twenties, The Catch-Thirties, The Midlife Crisis of the Forties.
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I think this is a great book dealing with "adult development". Something we all should know about before a mid life crisis hits!
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Passages by Gail Sheehy is a book that I saw lying around the house a lot when I was a kid. Since I am writing a memoir about my mom, I thought I'd read some of her favorite books. Turns out to be perfect timing. It's about the various phases of life leading up to the mid-life crisis. According to Sheehy, when we are young adults, many of us rush into choosing a role so that we can "get on" with life. This may entail denying parts of ourselves in order to better conform to that role, whether it's as a wife and mother, or go-getter professional. As mid-life approaches, many people start to realize the narrowness of that role and the sacrifices demanded by taking it on. We throw off those self-imposed limits and start a second exploration of self, perhaps in a wiser and less hurried frame of mind, though more conscious of our own mortality. A great read and still relevant, even though it was written in the mid-70s.
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Great re-read. Still has timely and good information about moving thru the stages of life.
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Insights on the predictable crises of adult life...written with wit and revelation.


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