
Release Date:- 2014-04-29
Reviews Counts:- 181
User Average Rating:- 3.5
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Kind:- ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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 yourselfāno matter what anyone else thinks.
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Letās Just Say It Wasnāt Pretty, she shares the wisdom sheās accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could writeāa smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty.
In her one-of-a-kind voice, Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone whoās ever dreamed of kicking back against the āshouldās and āsupposed toās that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoriaās Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye.
For Diane Keaton, 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 sheās 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 styleāand catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her lifeāincluding Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepardāshows how our ideals of beauty change as we age, and explains why a life well lived may be the most beautiful thing of all.
Wryly observant and as fiercely original as Diane Keaton herself, Letās Just Say It Wasnāt Pretty is a head-turner of a book that holds up a mirror to our beauty obsessionsāand encourages us to like what we see.
Praise for Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
āBehind the sterling movie credits and tomboyish wardrobe, we see a soulful and deep woman contemplating the narrative arc of her own life.āāNewsweek
āDelicious writing . . . This book is like a dishy lunch with the movie star you thought youād never be lucky enough to meet. . . . Diane Keaton is in a class by herself and this book is good for the soul.āāLiz Smith, Chicago Tribune
āSheās 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.āāElle
āAs disarming and personable as the actress herself.āāThe Huffington Post
āWise, witty, thoughtful, uplifting, the truth, unvarnishedāand very funny.āāToronto Star