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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... Haitian counterpart in the cultural affairs office of the Haitian state department . During the rest of my year and a half as a silenced lecturer , he and I exchanged formal dinners and perspectives on the great world . It was not bad ...
... Haitian counterpart in the cultural affairs office of the Haitian state department . During the rest of my year and a half as a silenced lecturer , he and I exchanged formal dinners and perspectives on the great world . It was not bad ...
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A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold. hundred years of Haitian independence , the United States stayed aloof from the affairs of Haiti , which was treated as an untouchable among the nations , except to warn away any Europeans who seemed to be ...
A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold. hundred years of Haitian independence , the United States stayed aloof from the affairs of Haiti , which was treated as an untouchable among the nations , except to warn away any Europeans who seemed to be ...
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... Haiti in a portrait of a lounging , prissily cigarette - smoking Haitian bourgeois . Philomé Obin depicted the great figures of the gospel - all but Judas - as black . Judas looked like a slick New Yorker . Obin was telling us something ...
... Haiti in a portrait of a lounging , prissily cigarette - smoking Haitian bourgeois . Philomé Obin depicted the great figures of the gospel - all but Judas - as black . Judas looked like a slick New Yorker . Obin was telling us something ...
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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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