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    The Last Dream
    The Last Dream
    The Last Dream
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Last Dream

    Written by Pedro Almodóvar

    Narrated by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, Juan Diego Botto and

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    About this audiobook

    Narrated by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, Michael Cera, Juan Diego Botto, Norbert Leo Butz, Taylour Paige, and Edoardo Ballerini

    “A major literary talent’s virtuosic debut” (Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author), the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories

    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

    Table of Contents

    Introduction —Juan Diego Botto

    The Visit —Colman Domingo

    Too Many Gender Swaps —Colman Domingo

    The Mirror Ceremony —Michael Cera

    Joanna, the Beautiful Madwoman —Rachel Weisz

    The Last Dream —Juan Diego Botto

    The Life and Death of Miguel —Edoardo Ballerini

    Confessions of a Sex Symbol —Taylour Paige

    Bitter Christmas —Rachel Weisz

    Adiós, Volcano —Juan Diego Botto

    Redemption —Edoardo Ballerini

    Memory of an Empty Day —Norbert Leo Butz

    A Bad Novel —Norbert Leo Butz

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 24, 2024
    ISBN9780063349773
    The Last Dream
    Author

    Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almodóvar is a Spanish film director and screenwriter whose more than two dozen films include Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, and Talk to Her. Almodóvar has received two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, nine Goya Awards, the French Legion of Honour, the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, the European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award and the Golden Lion.

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