The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon
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The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon

The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon

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Philip Graham (Author)  

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A dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical, transmitting pleasure, drama, and seductive strangeness. In "The Moon, Come to Earth", Philip Graham offers an expanded edition of a popular series of dispatches originally published on McSweeney's, an exuberant yet introspective account of a year's sojourn in Lisbon with his wife and daughter. Casting his attentive gaze on scenes as broad as a citywide arts festival and as small as a single paving stone in a cobbled walk, Graham renders Lisbon from a perspective that varies between wide-eyed and knowing; though he's unquestionably not a tourist, at the same time he knows he will never be a local. So his lyrical accounts reveal his struggles with (and love of) the Portuguese language, an awkward meeting with Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, being trapped in a budding soccer riot, and his daughter's challenging transition to adolescence while attending a Portuguese school - but he also waxes loving about Portugal's saudade-drenched music, its inventive cuisine, and its vibrant literary culture. And through his humorous, self-deprecating, and wistful explorations, we come to know Graham himself, and his wife and daughter, so when an unexpected crisis hits his family, we can't help but ache alongside them. A thoughtful, finely wrought celebration of the moment-to-moment excitement of diving deep into another culture and confronting one's secret selves, "The Moon, Come to Earth" is literary travel writing of a rare intimacy and immediacy.
Philip Graham is the author of two short story collections, The Art of the Knock and Interior Design, and a novel, How to Read an Unwritten Language, and is coauthor of a memoir of Africa, Parallel Worlds. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
  • Contributor: Philip Graham
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226305158
  • Number of Pages: 168
  • Packaged Dimensions: 14x22x1mm
  • Packaged Weight: 227
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2009-11-24
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Philip Graham is the author of two short story collections, The Art of the Knock and Interior Design, and a novel, How to Read an Unwritten Language, and is coauthor of a memoir of Africa, Parallel Worlds. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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