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'I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.' From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself. In Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, Diane Keaton shares the wisdom she's accumulated through the years - as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon - in a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty. For Diane, being beautiful starts with being true to who you are, and in this book she also offers self-knowing commentary on the bold personal choices she's made through the years- the wide-brimmed hats, outrageous shoes, and all-weather turtlenecks that have made her an inspiration to anyone who cherishes truly individual style - and catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her life - including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepard - shows how our ideals of beauty change as we age, and explains why a life well lived may be the most beautiful thing of all. Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, is a wryly observant and as fiercely original as Diane Keaton.

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Praise for Diane Keaton's Then Again A far-reaching, heartbreaking, absolutely lucid book about mothers, daughters, childhood, aging, mortality, joyfulness, love, work and the search for self-knowledge. -- The New York Tim es A poem about women living in one another's not uncomplicated memories . . . Part of what makes Diane Keaton's memoir, Then Again, truly amazing is that she does away with the star's 'me' and replaces it with a daughter's 'I.' --Hilton Als, The New Yorker As warm, funny, and self-deprecating as Keaton's onscreen persona--[ Then Again ] traces a profound dramatic arc: that of a young woman coming into her own as an artist, and of a daughter becoming a mother. -- Vogue Both heartbreaking and joyful, [ Then Again ] covers the gamut of life experiences facing all women. -- Chicago Sun-Times

Behind the sterling movie credits and tomboyish wardrobe, we see a soulful and deep woman contemplating the narrative arc of her own life. Newsweek Delicious writing . . . This book is like a dishy lunch with the movie star you thought you d never be lucky enough to meet. . . . Diane Keaton is in a class by herself and this book is good for the soul. Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune She s talented, iconic, quirky . . . and wonderfully blunt. This is just a small sampling of the reasons we love Diane Keaton, and they all permeate the pages of her new memoir. Elle As disarming and personable as the actress herself. The Huffington Post Wise, witty, thoughtful, uplifting, the truth, unvarnished and very funny. Toronto Star From the Hardcover edition.

Praise for Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty Relaxing and charming . . . like a dishy lunch with the movie star you thought you'd never be lucky enough to meet. . . . This is delicious writing and is full of a positive point of view, exclamations of the beauty of ordinary things and helped turn me from sour to sweet in the few hours that I was reading her book. . . . Diane Keaton is in a class by herself and this book is good for the soul. -- Chicago Tribune Wise, witty, thoughtful, uplifting, the truth, unvarnished--and very funny. -- Toronto Star Praise for Diane Keaton's Then Again A far-reaching, heartbreaking, absolutely lucid book about mothers, daughters, childhood, aging, mortality, joyfulness, love, work and the search for self-knowledge. -- The New York Tim es A poem about women living in one another's not uncomplicated memories . . . Part of what makes Diane Keaton's memoir, Then Again, truly amazing is that she does away with the star's 'me' and replaces it with a daughter's 'I.' --Hilton Als, The New Yorker As warm, funny, and self-deprecating as Keaton's onscreen persona--[ Then Again ] traces a profound dramatic arc: that of a young woman coming into her own as an artist, and of a daughter becoming a mother. -- Vogue Both heartbreaking and joyful, [ Then Again ] covers the gamut of life experiences facing all women. -- Chicago Sun-Times From the Hardcover edition.

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Diane Keaton is the New York Times bestselling author of Then Again, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times, People, and Vogue. She has starred in some of the most memorable movies of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club, and Something's Gotta Give. Her many awards include the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. Keaton lives with her daughter and son in Los Angeles. From the Audiobook Download edition.

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