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Gail Sheehy, 1976
A journalist turns her own midlife collapse into a map of the predictable crises that reshape adult life.
Gail Sheehy
Elliott Jaques coined “midlife crisis” in 1965; Sheehy’s 1976 bestseller made the phrase a household term.
Feels like time, identity and hope.
For the generation that had everything and felt nothing.
Some intruder shook me by the psyche and shouted: Take stock! Half your life has been spent. What about the part of you that wants a home and talks about a second child? Before I could answer, the intruder pointed to something else I had postponed: What about the side of you that wants to contribute to the world? Words, books, demonstrations, donations—is this enough? You have been a performer, not a full participant. And now you are 35. Books by Gail Sheehy
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