Автор:Gail Sheehy Год: 1996 Издание:Ballantine Books Страниц: 528 ISBN: 0345404459 People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to grow old. 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 The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood-beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five-are hopelessly out of date.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. "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...
