Earl Shorris: 7 books
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
A conversation in a prison cell sparks an ambitious undertaking to attack the roots of long-term poverty.
Seeking answers to the toughest questions about poverty in the United States, Earl Shorris had looked everywhere. At last, one resounding answer came from a conversation with a woman in...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2000
"You've been cheated," Earl Shorris tells a classroom of poor people in New York City.
"Rich people learn the humanities; you didn't. . . . It is generally accepted in America that the liberal arts and humanities in particular belong to the elite. I think you're the elite."...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
If Adam is the archetype of man, and Eve of woman, then the serpent who sold the apple to Eve in the Garden of Eden was the first salesman: all culture and commerce flow from that act.
In this groundbreaking book on the nature and meaning of the sale, Earl Shorris takes us on a journey that...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."—Laurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune
They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico."--History Today
The Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution,...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
This is a work of great scope, a powerful illumination of an enigmatic figure.
Told from the point of view of an ancient shaman, this is the dark and mystical story of Mexico's greatest revolutionary general, Pancho Villa. Shedding the Hollywood mantle of the drunken, womanizing bandit-turned-hero,...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2000
In this stark, unsettling novel, set in a Mexican prison, present-day events resonate with the ancient history and wisdom of the Maya. Graham Greene meets Carlos Castaneda.
In the central Yucatan a group of Maya Indian workers revolt against the corrupt oligarchy of government, business, the...