Books
July, 1976
Without warning, in the middle of my 30s, I had a breakdown of nerve," Gail Sheehy writes in Passages: The Predictable Crises of Adult Life (Dutton). A woman who knew herself as a successful and enterprising journalist suddenly became so mesmerized in a personal nightmare of doubts and fears that she was incapable of any act of will more demanding than watching TV. "That's it," she finally said to herself. "I've come unstuck ... I was hanging on to shreds and I knew it."...
