Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty (Random House Large Print)

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 yourselfno matter what anyone else thinks.

Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Lets Just Say It Wasnt Pretty, she shares the wisdom shes accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could writea 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 whos ever dreamed of kicking back against the shoulds and supposed tos 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 Victorias 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 shes 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 styleand catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her lifeincluding Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepardshows 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, Lets Just Say It Wasnt Pretty is a head-turner of a book that holds up a mirror to our beauty obsessionsand encourages us to like what we see.

Praise for Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

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 youd 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

Shes 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, unvarnishedand very funny.Toronto Star


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