Product Description

Based on years of research, this book examines significant life transitions-families moving, loss of a job, retirement-and offers a step-by-step approach to turning these overwhelming events into challenging experiences. By systematically sizing up transitions and one's resources for dealing with them, people can learn how to build on their strengths, cut their losses, and even grow in the process. Schlossberg's work on transitions provides a generic framework to dealing with any transition and is written in accessible, everyday language.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #605409 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781590771266
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Author and entertainment reporter Schwarz (The Hillside Strangler) documents the life of Juanita Slusher (1935-2005), from her birth and troubled childhood in Edna, Tex. to her days as a 14-year-old runaway, enslaved in the South Dallas sex trade, before escaping and becoming the popular Las Vegas erotic dancer Candy Barr-celebrated for the beauty and body that lured, all her life, the worst kinds of men. Schwartz's research includes a hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Slusher, who would only allow her story to be told after her death. A local legend, her connections to Jack Ruby and Mickey Cohen have been overstated in the title, but her story is a compelling, brutal tragedy set against a country's loss of innocence; she's even brushed by the investigation into JFK's assassination. Additionally, there's no redemption after a lifetime of abuse; she lived to see 70 and, according to Schwarz, spent the last 30 years of her life bitter and isolated. There was once talk of a Candy Barr biopic starring Farrah Fawcett; this is definitely the stuff of edgier television movies (think HBO, not ABC), and clearly a story she wanted told. 16 pages of b&w photos.
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Customer Reviews

Dealing with overwhelming life transitions (whether positive or negative)
First of all that bit from Publishers Weekly should be taken down, only the second part relates to this book (and I have no idea how to let the Amazon people know (wrong book/author!). Another library book that I ended up coming to Amazon and buying. I found this book to be very valuable, as been constantly feeling a bit overwhelmed by transitions with family illness and other life changes over the recent years. The author explains how both positive transitions (weddings, moves, career changes) and negative transitions (death, illness, divorce) affect us (even in ways we don't realize). How they can become overwhelming and ways we can cope. I found this book helpful and well-written.