Books by Gail Sheehy and Complete Book Reviews

Gail Sheehy, Author . Random $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-50862-2
With nearly 50 victims, the commuter hamlet of Middletown, N.J., and its environs suffered the "largest concentrated death toll" on September 11 of anyplace in America. A "town with no middle," Middletown consists of affluent...
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Gail Sheehy, Author . Random $25.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6263-8
Sheehy, a self-described seasoned woman, set off in search of others like herself. Her premise? There's "a new universe of lusty, liberated women, some married and some not, who are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle...
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Gail Sheehy, Author Random House Inc $16 (161p) ISBN 978-0-679-41388-2
How are women of the baby-boomer generation handling the ``M word,'' the change whose name they dare not speak? According to Sheehy's short report (expanded from her 1991 Vanity Fair article), many are utterly unprepared. The author ( Pathfinder ),...
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Gail Sheehy, Author Random House Inc $24 (292p) ISBN 978-0-679-45273-7
The years after 40 offer men a ""second adulthood,"" declares Sheehy, a chance to reinvent themselves. But first they must shift from competing to connecting, from incessant striving for external rewards to a quest for inner fulfillment through...
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Gail Sheehy, Morrow, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 9780061661204
Like the 44 million other Americans caring for an ill or elderly person in their homes, prolific writer Sheehy looked after her late husband Clay Felker while he battled cancer for more than a decade. Having already chronicled almost every stage in...
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Gail Sheehy. Morrow, $29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-229169-1
An overlong memoir by the investigative journalist and prolific author Sheehy (Passages in Caregiving; Sex and the Seasoned Woman, etc.) tracks four decades of her astonishing ability to catch America’s swiftly changing moods, from undercover...
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Gail Sheehy, Author, Sheehy, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $12 (232p) ISBN 978-0-671-51951-3
Sheehy's popular guide has been revised and updated. (June)
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