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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... Grand Hotel Oloffson as he ordered a pair of rum punches . One afternoon , bent over our fruity fortified syrup — the thought of rum punch no longer inspires me — he stopped his regular laughter , which was normally like a lighthouse ...
... Grand Hotel Oloffson as he ordered a pair of rum punches . One afternoon , bent over our fruity fortified syrup — the thought of rum punch no longer inspires me — he stopped his regular laughter , which was normally like a lighthouse ...
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... Grand Hotel Oloffson a band played for me , for the Red Cross doctor and his wife , and for Aubelin Jolicoeur , the skinny , squealing , white - suited journalist who did his best to befriend all visiting writers and young women . He ...
... Grand Hotel Oloffson a band played for me , for the Red Cross doctor and his wife , and for Aubelin Jolicoeur , the skinny , squealing , white - suited journalist who did his best to befriend all visiting writers and young women . He ...
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... Oloffson French toast makes it impossible , dissolving bad dreams and wasteful nostalgia in honey and crispness . The Grand Hotel Oloffson was a survivor , recently dressed up with telephones that worked even when it rained and a new ...
... Oloffson French toast makes it impossible , dissolving bad dreams and wasteful nostalgia in honey and crispness . The Grand Hotel Oloffson was a survivor , recently dressed up with telephones that worked even when it rained and a new ...
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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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