| Author/Contributor(s): | Almodóvar, Pedro |
| Publisher: | Reservoir Books |
| Date: | 2/16/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Flavio Guijarro lleva media vida reinventándose. Ha tenido decenas de aficiones, pero pocas veces han culminado en una profesión; la de actor es la que ha logrado cultivar con más o menos fortuna. En un viaje de promoción, sin embargo, a diez mil metros de altura, descubre tardíamente una nueva vocación: la escritura. Desde entonces va a dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a combatir sus bloqueos creativos y perseguir ese sueño…
que irremediablemente se le escapa de las manos en cuanto se acerca el momento de poner el punto final.
Acudirá en busca de inspiración a los lugares más insospechados y, para su sorpresa, descubrirá una insólita aptitud como coach de actores. Lo que Flavio no imagina es a dónde puede conducirlo esta nueva etapa de su vida ni qué futuro le espera a su incipiente historia de amor con el actor más exitoso del momento.
El hombre que solo escribía en los aviones es la primera novela de Pedro Almodóvar. En ella, vamos a descubrir un tapiz de experiencias y lecturas, de tramas inventadas y de ideas prestadas que sirven de cimiento a una obra sorprendente, libresca, ansiosa y muy apasionada.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Following the overwhelming international success of The Last Dream, translated into thirty languages (“Twelve stories more real than any run-of-the-mill autobiography” —The Guardian), Pedro Almodóvar returns to fiction with a novel of high literary caliber.
Flavio Guijarro has spent half his life reinventing himself. He’s had dozens of hobbies, but few have ever led to a career; acting is the one he’s managed to pursue with varying degrees of success. On a promotional trip, however, at an altitude of ten thousand meters, he belatedly discovers a new calling: writing. From then on, he devotes himself body and soul to overcoming his creative blocks and pursuing that dream… which inevitably slips through his fingers as soon as the moment comes to put the final period.
He’ll seek inspiration in the most unexpected places and, to his surprise, discover an unusual aptitude as an acting coach. What Flavio cannot imagine is where this new phase of his life might lead him, nor what future awaits his budding love story with the most successful actor of the moment.
The Man Who Only Wrote on Airplanes is Pedro Almodóvar’s first novel. In it, we’ll discover a tapestry of experiences and readings, of invented plots and borrowed ideas that serve as the foundation for a surprising, bookish, anxious, and deeply passionate work.