![]() In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier-a Second Adulthood in middle life. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood-beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five-are hopelessly out of date. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. ![]() A fifty-year-old woman-who remains free of cancer and heart disease- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages.
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