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A Bad Afternoon for a Piece of Cake
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A Bad Afternoon for a Piece of Cake Hardcover - 2016

by Diane Ladd


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Southern writers have a unique talent for feel, touch, smell, and taste that doesn t seem to exist anywhere else. Truman Capote had this extraordinary gift. So did Flannery O Connor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams among others. They felt the snow, smelled the honeysuckle, heard the wind through the loblolly pines, tasted the sweet tea. And they got it down on paper with a wrenching sensitivity that turned into literature. Diane Ladd has it, too as an actress, as a humanitarian, and as a writer of prose that makes cracker barrel talk as down-home unpretentious as a buttermilk biscuit suddenly sound downright patrician. The characters in these stories laugh, cry, bleed and leave behind a legacy not easily forgotten. They come from Mississippi towns called Meridian, Poplarville, and Tupelo, and end up in cities called Chicago, San Francisco, and Manhattan, but no matter how they learn or lose or love, they never cease to cherish a Porsche 911 GT2 or a cold bottle of Orange Crush with equal relish. Diane Ladd is one of them. From the Mississippi Delta to Broadway and Hollywood, she has forgotten nothing and retained everything. What a thrill to read what she knows in the words of characters as rich and colorful as fields of sunflowers: a man whose homophobia backfires because he s wearing an orange jacket, a garden that flourishes from the bodies of mercury-poisoned miners in the cemetery underneath, a statuesque mulatto on her first day at Juilliard. You can t learn this stuff in a writing class. You absorb the stories you hear, hold them close, stamp them in your memory. Then on a bad afternoon for a piece of cake, you write them down and tell them to the world, the way they were told to you. And you become a Southern writer, on your way to a new adventure. How blessed we are to share this one with Diane Ladd

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  • Title A Bad Afternoon for a Piece of Cake
  • Author Diane Ladd
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Exxcell Press
  • Date 2016-09
  • ISBN 9780981792064 / 0981792065
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Diane Ladd, actress/writer/director/author is a winner of over 35 International Awards including The British Academy Award, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Film Award, the Cannes' Palme d'or Award and she is also 3X Emmy and 3X Oscar Nominee; Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore/ Lynch's Wild At Heart/and Rambling Rose (in which she and actress Laura Dern were the first Mother/daughter tandem to both be nominated for Oscars creating "show business history!" The late Princess Diana chose this film as one of her all-time favorites honoring it with a London Royal Premier and a party in their Honor.Ladd is currently starring in the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores and also recently appeared in Ray Donovan for Showtime. Her most recent film was Twentieth Century Fox's, Joy, by Director David O. Russell released Christmas Day 2015. Other films this year were I Dream Too Much starring Diane (Executive Producer, Richard Linklater), which premiered at Austin's South by Southwest in 2015 and Sophie and the Rising Sun with Margo Martindale and Julianne Nicholson. Ladd has been in over 200 films and TV shows including the Alice TV Series for which she won the Golden Globe, Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, and co-starred in the hit TV series, Enlightened with her daughter Laura Dern for HBO. She also won kudos and 3 "Best Director/Writer" awards for her film, Mrs. Munck in which she was the first woman to direct an ex-husband, Bruce Dern.She has authored the book, Spiraling Through the School of Life-A Mental Physical and Spiritual Discovery; Find Your Miracles which received endorsements from, among others; Marianne Williamson, Stephen King, Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Wayne Dwyer. As a writer, she was honored at the 2014 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans, celebrated for her newest book, A Bad Afternoon for a Piece of Cake. The book garnered praise by critic Rex Reed comparing her to Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers as well as her cousin Tennessee Williams, stating "She has the same gift they do and you can't learn this stuff in writing class." Diane is President of the Art and Culture Taskforce, a 501 (c) 3 that promotes culture and arts in schools across America. She is the proud grandmother of ten loving grandchildren.
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