- Maturation (Psychology), Middle-aged persons, Adulthood, Psychology
Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's international bestseller Passages, named by a Library of Congress survey as one of the most influential books of our times.
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Earnest, contemporary, spare and warm.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Gail Sheehy
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 501
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Random House, Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006388203
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First sentence
“Western culture from antiquity to the present has sought to divide human life into ages and stages.”
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