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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... National Palace in Port - au - Prince . " Haiti has a National Palace ? " I asked . " It doesn't have a tin roof , " she said . " My mother's house does . " And then the inexorable winding down of my G.I. Bill and Fulbright sinecures ...
... National Palace in Port - au - Prince . " Haiti has a National Palace ? " I asked . " It doesn't have a tin roof , " she said . " My mother's house does . " And then the inexorable winding down of my G.I. Bill and Fulbright sinecures ...
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... National Palace seemed to sit on the smoking ruin which was Haiti . François Duvalier , the country doctor , sat ... palace for a Coke . " My dear friend ! " said Papa Doc . " Had I but known ! " Standing in front of his shop ...
... National Palace seemed to sit on the smoking ruin which was Haiti . François Duvalier , the country doctor , sat ... palace for a Coke . " My dear friend ! " said Papa Doc . " Had I but known ! " Standing in front of his shop ...
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... National Palace , but an idea was taking shape , a mysticism of suffering . Jean Weiner described it as zombification of the country . The idea eluded rational comprehension . Baron Samedi in the palace seemed to want to preside over a ...
... National Palace , but an idea was taking shape , a mysticism of suffering . Jean Weiner described it as zombification of the country . The idea eluded rational comprehension . Baron Samedi in the palace seemed to want to preside over 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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