The Moon, Come to Earth : Dispatches from Lisbon /

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, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graham, Philip (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Travel / General.
travel narrative, short stories, lisbon, family, wife, daughter, arts festival, portuguese, foreign language, soccer, riot, jose saramago, nobel laureate, saudade, music, food, cuisine, adolescence, school, education, coming of age, portugal, history, departure, tourism, belonging, culture shock, hispanic, children, memoir, biography, autobiography, nonfiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • Epilogue
  • End Notes / Mini-dispatches
  • Sources of Literature Quoted

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