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 The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood-beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five-are hopelessly out of date.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 recalculat...