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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... political gossip and maneuver seemed even more important than lovemaking , except perhaps on Saturday nights . Every American was an FBI spy , a journalist promot- ing zombies and black magic , or an agent sent to do in the regime ...
... political gossip and maneuver seemed even more important than lovemaking , except perhaps on Saturday nights . Every American was an FBI spy , a journalist promot- ing zombies and black magic , or an agent sent to do in the regime ...
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... political desperado , wrote one novel before he died " of alcohol and chagrin . " He had been in jail for Communist agitation ; he had been sent into exile as a consul in Mexico City , the mild doom practiced by relatively tender ...
... political desperado , wrote one novel before he died " of alcohol and chagrin . " He had been in jail for Communist agitation ; he had been sent into exile as a consul in Mexico City , the mild doom practiced by relatively tender ...
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... political murders and rapes seemed to lead to nonpolitical ones . Many foreigners now employed bodyguards for their children . I could adjust to the political turmoil , the random killings , the bodies in the street . I could understand ...
... political murders and rapes seemed to lead to nonpolitical ones . Many foreigners now employed bodyguards for their children . I could adjust to the political turmoil , the random killings , the bodies in the street . I could understand ...
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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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