Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... drink- fests , but eventually we met . I was visiting the Damiens agriculture station outside Port - au - Prince . His Haitian " counterpart , " trainee Monsieur Gérard , a gleaming , very polite graduate of the Damiens School , hung at ...
... drink- fests , but eventually we met . I was visiting the Damiens agriculture station outside Port - au - Prince . His Haitian " counterpart , " trainee Monsieur Gérard , a gleaming , very polite graduate of the Damiens School , hung at ...
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... drink with me in 1954 on the wooden ramp leading to what is called the maternity ward at the Grand Hotel Oloffson . " This country destroyed my marriage , " he said , " destroyed my health , destroyed my life , and I love it more than ...
... drink with me in 1954 on the wooden ramp leading to what is called the maternity ward at the Grand Hotel Oloffson . " This country destroyed my marriage , " he said , " destroyed my health , destroyed my life , and I love it more than ...
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... drinking our rum or papaya juice , and then there were more shots , this time closer . We stopped talking . I heard ... drinks on the terrace of the Grand Hotel Oloffson . Jorgen and I continued to gossip about our marriages , the ...
... drinking our rum or papaya juice , and then there were more shots , this time closer . We stopped talking . I heard ... drinks on the terrace of the Grand Hotel Oloffson . Jorgen and I continued to gossip about our marriages , the ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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