The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon (repost)
The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon By Philip Graham
Publisher: University of Chicago Press 2009 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0226305155 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: University of Chicago Press 2009 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0226305155 | PDF | 1 MB
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.