Speed is of the Essence

by Gail Sheehy

"This extraordinary book plunges into the lives of people living on the edge- personality explosion through amphetamines, revolutionary commitment packaged in a homemade bomb, the bachelor mothers and the childless marrieds."

166 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to the magazine Vanity Fair.

Her fifth book, Passages, has been called "a road map of adult life". Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life's stages, including menopause and what she calls "Second Adulthood", including Pathfinders, Spirit of Survival, and Menopause: The Silent Passage. Her latest book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon: a surge of vitality in women's sex and love lives after age fifty. She has also authored a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton titled Hillary's Choice. Her novel Middletown, America is being adapted as a TV miniseries. (from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Matthew Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vivid and panoramic in its display of speed culture of early 1970s NYC empathetic in that it shows what this did to the main character parents and her relationship with her fiance/boyfriend. And what it did to him .... And that wasn't all bad it wasn't all performance anxiety and perfection but it was seeking a type of perfection amidst a toiling busy city ... Honest