The moon, come to Earth: dispatches from Lisbon
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1. Verfasser: Graham, Philip (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2009
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I don't know why I love Lisbon -- So who says objects are inanimate? -- 365 days of pork surprise -- Alchemy : from a rube to a local -- Bread, bread; cheese, cheese -- Let's throw a festival! -- Isn't there a law against filching a calçada? -- The moon, come to Earth -- Those tricky subgestures -- Nearly the same substance -- Go, whatchamacallits! -- Chama-me Ismail -- Another history lesson -- We capture the castle -- Salvage -- Light for light -- Este espectáculo cruél -- Three churches -- Particle and wave -- Fairly medieval -- Goodbye, good luck -- Sip by sip -- On this side of the ocean
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 kno
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ISBN:0226305163
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