“Mom 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.”
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