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ALMODÓVAR PEDRO THE LAST DREAM

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 Also available in audio featuring narration by Colman Domingo 
Rachel Weisz  and Michael Cera. “Instantly fascinating  brimming with twisting narratives and
unforgettable endings…  The Last Dream  stands alone as a major literary talent’s virtuosic
debut.” —Kaveh Akbar  New York Times bestselling author of  Martyr! “[A] real page turner.”
—John Waters Making his English language debut  the iconoclastic  two-time Academy
award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection
of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir  comedy  autofiction  parody  pastiche  and gothic
fiction. With this debut collection  film legend Pedro Almodóvar delivers a tantalizing glimpse
into his world  formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating
from the late ‘60s to the present. Almodóvar writes: “I’ve been asked to write my autobiography
more than once  and I’ve always refused. . . . I’ve never kept a diary  and whenever I’ve tried
I’ve never made it to page two  in a sense  then  this book represents something of a paradox.
It might be best described as a fragmentary autobiography  incomplete and a little enigmatic.”
Each entry reflects Almodóvar's most intimate obsessions  as well as his evolution as an
artist. In the title story  “The Last Dream ” Almodóvar reflects on the death of his mother.
Other entries in the collection include a love story between Jesus and Barabbas  a story of
retribution that formed the basis for the film Bad Education   a manic adventure about a film
director searching for painkillers on a bank holiday weekend  and a gothic tale centered around
a repentant vampire. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

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