{"product_id":"the-moon-come-to-earth-philip-graham-9780226305158","title":"The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical, transmitting pleasure, drama, and seductive strangeness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Moon, Come to Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e Philip Graham offers an expanded edition of a popular series of dispatches originally published on \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 José 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 \u003ci\u003esaudade\u003c\/i\u003e-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 that when an unexpected crisis hits his family, we can't help but ache alongside them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA thoughtful, finely wrought celebration of the moment-to-moment excitement of diving deep into another culture and confronting one's secret selves, \u003ci\u003eThe Moon, Come to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is literary travel writing of a rare intimacy and immediacy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226305155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226305158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.52w x 0.39d","brand":"Philip Graham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086401745151,"sku":"9780226305158","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3eeddad7-376b-4d08-9504-fb7d2ac4e57d.jpg?v=1769094473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-moon-come-to-earth-philip-graham-9780226305158","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}