Passages, Gail Sheehy
Passages, Gail Sheehy
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Passages

Author: Gail Sheehy

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie, Gail Sheehy

Unabridged: 17 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020

Synopsis

Gail Sheehy’s classic bestseller, Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, is available with a new introduction.For decades, Gail Sheehy’s landmark bestseller Passages has been inspiring readers to see the predictable crises of adult life as opportunities for growth. She charts the stages between 18 and 50 as unfolding in a pattern of adult development: once recognized, more easily managed. Passages is an insightful road map of adulthood that illustrates with vivid stories our continuing personality and sexual changes throughout the “Trying 20s,” “Catch 30s,” “Forlorn 40s,” and “Refreshed (or Resigned) 50s.” One comment is continuously repeated by men, women, singles, couples, and people who recover from a midlife crisis: “This book changed my life.”© 1974, 1976, renewed 2004 by Gail Sheehy. ℗ 2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

About Gail Sheehy

Gail Sheehy, Ph.D., as author, journalist, and popular lecturer, has changed the way millions of women and men around the world look at their life stages. In her 50-year career, she has written 17 books, including her revolutionary Passages, named one of the ten most influential books of our times. As a literary journalist, she was one of the original contributors to New York Magazine and to Vanity Fair since 1984. A winner of many awards, three honorary doctorates, a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 by Books for a Better Life, she has regularly commented on political figures, including in her acclaimed biography of Hillary Clinton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on August 18, 2012

This book was written in the 1970's, and helped me through a couple of difficult passages in my life. I was young then, and I'm not young now (68), but it's just possible that I might pick it up and read it again. It certainly helped me survive a couple of personal crises in my life.........more

Goodreads review by Lesley on April 11, 2010

This book meant a lot to me because I was reading it when I met a good looking Canadian fresh off the plane. Amazingly, he too was reading the book and we sat till long in the night discussing what it meant to us. He has now been my husband for 29 years!......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on August 06, 2013

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 S......more

Goodreads review by Pam on February 01, 2008

I find myself continually referring to the premises of this book in my life. I really believe that our true age in life is changing through our experiences. As we deal with life's crises we have to regroup our ways, consequently our developmental age regresses until we're able to learn from and push......more

Goodreads review by Larry on April 08, 2012

Middle age provides enough history to see major life events with some perspective. Consideration of the future begins to gain focus. "Passages" provided a vocabulary and understanding of how we all deal with loss and tragedy. I began to see myself on Sheehy's various steps and reminded me that 1) my......more

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