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Then Again - Diane Keaton, Anna Quindlen
Then Again
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue   ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times The Independent • Bookreporter The Sunday Business PostMom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders... show more
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue   ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times The Independent • Bookreporter The Sunday Business PostMom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.   So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.   More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.   Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780812980950 (0812980956)
ASIN: 812980956
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
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Community Reviews
UnaTiers
UnaTiers rated it
Diane Keaton reads her own book, but doesn't speak or write in sentences. Much of the material is taken from her late mother's journals, but this gets mixed in with her thoughts and reflections. In a word the book is random.
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it
While Then Again includes autobiographical detail and, for the most part, follows a roughly chronological structure, Keaton does play a lot with the form. Pulling in excerpts from her mother’s volumes of personal journals and setting them alongside her own narrative, she looks for their similarities...
mixmastermac
mixmastermac rated it
I found the sections of the story written by her mother were more interesting, when the reader's got to see the letters Dorothy sent or the journals she wrote, we found out so much about her "character". I wish that the book would have had more of Dorothy's memoirs, with the odd comment from Diane h...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it
3.0
★★★½✩ I liked this memoir, but it was from two perspectives: Insecure Diane and her mother’s bias writings on Diane. So the black and white cover was appropriate.
In Dreams Awake
In Dreams Awake rated it
5.0 Then Again
There are few genuine people in Hollywood. I always felt that Diane Keaton was one of them. This book proves it. It's nothing if not honest. I may be biased in giving it 5 stars because I've always been a huge Diane Keaton fan. Is it the best written memoir? Perhaps not. But as Woody Allen would say...
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