Random House
November 2011
On Sale: November 15, 2011
304 pages ISBN: 1400068789 EAN: 9781400068784 Kindle: B004P8JPM2 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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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