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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... happy - again I was happy . I was seeing the country , using pick and spade to dig in sunbaked earth , sharing good fellowship with jolly young adventurers . At night , when we slept in a little guesthouse in Port - de - Paix , I heard ...
... happy - again I was happy . I was seeing the country , using pick and spade to dig in sunbaked earth , sharing good fellowship with jolly young adventurers . At night , when we slept in a little guesthouse in Port - de - Paix , I heard ...
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... happy virgin until I was nearly eleven , and a happy daughter and wife to Terry . When I sent him to jail , it was for his own good . " And she grinned like the little girl called Why ? She gazed into my eyes , shaking her head . " 217 ...
... happy virgin until I was nearly eleven , and a happy daughter and wife to Terry . When I sent him to jail , it was for his own good . " And she grinned like the little girl called Why ? She gazed into my eyes , shaking her head . " 217 ...
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... happy for an economist at the World Bank , which was his job in exile from Haiti . He was recently married for the first time . Issa said it was better to make many women happy than to make one woman unhappy . We spoke of the need to ...
... happy for an economist at the World Bank , which was his job in exile from Haiti . He was recently married for the first time . Issa said it was better to make many women happy than to make one woman unhappy . We spoke of the need to ...
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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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