{"product_id":"the-last-dream","title":"The Last Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlso available in audio featuring narration by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, and Michael Cera.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[A] real page turner.\" --John Waters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780063349766\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £9.04","offer_id":47908904403121,"sku":"SB-0063349760-C2","price":9.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0063349760.jpg?v=1789701925","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-last-dream","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}