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Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? | 
 enlarge | Author: Sara Davidson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 21875
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0345478096
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.244
EAN: 9780345478092
ASIN: 0345478096
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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Product Description
Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation’s coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.
For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties she saw her life come apart: She could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift, but she found that she was not alone.
In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as
• How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?
• How can women continue to be sensual and not touch-deprived?
• How do we arrange to grow old with our friends?
• What will be the fire at the center of our lives?
• Why are we still here?
Davidson interviews people from across the country and from all walks of life, including such icons as Carly Simon, Tom Hayden, Tracy Kidder, Jane Fonda, Ram Dass, and Iman, as well as teachers, writers, psychologists, businesspeople, and spiritual leaders. The candid portraits are both inspiring and cautionary.
True to character, boomers will approach these years differently from previous generations, and there will be no single path. Some will feel free for the first time to take risks; others will embark upon a spiritual search; some will want to give back, to make the world a better place; others will want to play or make creativity a priority. But they will not fade quietly into the sunset.
With Leap!, Sara Davidson holds up a mirror for readers, allowing them to see not only themselves and those around them but their potential future. With Davidson as a guide, the possibilities are boundless.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Leap-the book June 22, 2008
Very helpful to the baby-boomers...While written from a woman's point of view, it touches issues that must be common to men and women both.
A must read!
 Leap June 22, 2008
I have not finished this book but was a bit disappointed as I thought it would be a more general opinion. It seems to be more about the author's personal life rather than general observations...
 DUD April 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Personally, I thought the book was a huge disappointment. I was looking forward to reading about ideas on "What will I do with the rest of my life". What I read dealt with people who have made millions of dollars and what THEY did with the rest of their life. I don't have money that is disposable like these people and I think the book was highly overrated! I can't travel to other countries to check out a new place to live, I can't build my dream home, and I certainly don't know any of these people personally. What a waste of my reading time.............
Leap! A must read for those entering a new phase... December 22, 2007
A great read! Poised on the brink of my next phase in life- after 30 years with the same organization - Leap! provided me with some thoughtful, well-written and entertaining answers to that increasingly nagging question, "What to do with the rest of my life?" A must read for those 50 somethings entering the next phase. Perhaps her next book will deal with that age old question, "What is the meaning of life?"
Our Life Stories Written in 3-D November 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Within the first paragraph Sara launched me back into the electric fever of the 60's and 70's when many of us boomers were certain we would be actually changing the focus, the intentions, the music, the spiritual, the economic and political direction of the world. Starting from her own raw and personal life transition, she reveals that her world is telling her she is past her prime, she has lost her edge and what was a highly successful career as a journalist and novelist seems to have dried up. What Sara does in Leap! is interview many of the visible A list people of that time and find out how they are coping.
Sara's compelling ability to interview and converse with them so personally, reminded me that fame, fortune, and accomplishments are not all they are cracked up to be. Their musings of what and how to deal with "what's next" was both humbling and inspiring. Though my circumstances are not the same, many of the issues are dead on similar.
Her launch is not only backwards, but into the present as well as forward. She is speaking to my questions, my evaluations of life lived so far, and how can I engage myself fully from within when the outside world of what I have done isn't shining back so brilliantly. We are not yet at ease at the "being" part of ourselves, where accomplishments have no meaning. And we don't know where we are going to land. There is an honesty and poignancy that Sara tenderly invites us to niggle at deeply sore points in our innermost being. Some of the people Sara has met have found ways to face the fear in full frontal mode. I could barely put this book down and when I finished it, I realized Sara has expanded my contracted view of my own aging and import by putting me in contact with so many others traveling together and not knowing it.
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