Books by Earl Shorris

"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."-Laurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune

"You've been cheated," Earl Shorris tells a classroom of poor people in New York City.

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.