Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiSimon & Schuster, 1992 - 303 pages A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy. |
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... Aubelin Jolicoeur in 1971. " I was pretty , " she admitted matter - of - factly . " Now ... " She touched her- self here and there . I tried to imagine her as others did , as she saw herself , as a woman in late middle age , but I still ...
... Aubelin Jolicoeur in 1971. " I was pretty , " she admitted matter - of - factly . " Now ... " She touched her- self here and there . I tried to imagine her as others did , as she saw herself , as a woman in late middle age , but I still ...
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... Aubelin Jolicoeur , philosopher from Jacmel , Haiti . ” " That's pretty fine , Aubie . " But a graduate of the Lycée Pinchinat could not leave it at that . Shakespeare was only a beginning for this citizen of the Haitian asteroid . " I ...
... Aubelin Jolicoeur , philosopher from Jacmel , Haiti . ” " That's pretty fine , Aubie . " But a graduate of the Lycée Pinchinat could not leave it at that . Shakespeare was only a beginning for this citizen of the Haitian asteroid . " I ...
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... Aubelin Jolicoeur thought the problem was to do away with " zombie checks , " treasury payoffs to journalists , especially now that he was not getting any . A radio report about another call for another general strike was followed by a ...
... Aubelin Jolicoeur thought the problem was to do away with " zombie checks , " treasury payoffs to journalists , especially now that he was not getting any . A radio report about another call for another general strike was followed by a ...
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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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