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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... Bogat , sometimes known as " Le Sénégalais , " the Senegalese , was a very black Haitian who had risen to wealth and power from his early days as a taxi driver . Tall , graceful , imperious , and a collector of women , Bogat was a ...
... Bogat , sometimes known as " Le Sénégalais , " the Senegalese , was a very black Haitian who had risen to wealth and power from his early days as a taxi driver . Tall , graceful , imperious , and a collector of women , Bogat was a ...
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... Bogat . As a man who entertained the president of General Motors on visits to Haiti , Le Sénégalais was seen as light - skinned by those whose vision was sufficiently filtered . Envy was a color selector . Poor mulatto black . Rich ...
... Bogat . As a man who entertained the president of General Motors on visits to Haiti , Le Sénégalais was seen as light - skinned by those whose vision was sufficiently filtered . Envy was a color selector . Poor mulatto black . Rich ...
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... Bogat , we went to his automobile and found a chicken on the front seat of his Buick , feathers plucked out and the carcass painted blue . This was a serious curse . Bogat went into a foaming rage , falling to the ground ; and then , a ...
... Bogat , we went to his automobile and found a chicken on the front seat of his Buick , feathers plucked out and the carcass painted blue . This was a serious curse . Bogat went into a foaming rage , falling to the ground ; and then , 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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