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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... Jacmel . ( I had done no actual roadwork , but wrote about the pretty seaside village of Jacmel with its colonial buildings . ) Gonâives : where the successful revolt against the Duvaliers began ; where I showed the great voodoo ...
... Jacmel . ( I had done no actual roadwork , but wrote about the pretty seaside village of Jacmel with its colonial buildings . ) Gonâives : where the successful revolt against the Duvaliers began ; where I showed the great voodoo ...
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... Jacmel , water and mountains and dream bridges , Jacmel islands on towers or wind- ing into the sky . He was calling back the home place he loved , elaborating it into a celestial Jacmel . His success bred little Duffaut- lings ...
... Jacmel , water and mountains and dream bridges , Jacmel islands on towers or wind- ing into the sky . He was calling back the home place he loved , elaborating it into a celestial Jacmel . His success bred little Duffaut- lings ...
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... Jacmel ? ” His face was shriveled against sunlight , shrunken by age , blotched and deeply freckled . It looked like a dog's muzzle . " Why is a Jew living here ? " I asked him in return . " My home , " he said . " You call this a life ...
... Jacmel ? ” His face was shriveled against sunlight , shrunken by age , blotched and deeply freckled . It looked like a dog's muzzle . " Why is a Jew living here ? " I asked him in return . " My home , " he said . " You call this a life ...
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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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