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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... Pétionville is home to two or three hundred millionaires . A million dollars goes a long way in Haiti , and of course the rich don't suffer the inconve- nience of taxes . They can live in a kind of luxury and privilege that makes U.S. ...
... Pétionville is home to two or three hundred millionaires . A million dollars goes a long way in Haiti , and of course the rich don't suffer the inconve- nience of taxes . They can live in a kind of luxury and privilege that makes U.S. ...
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... Pétionville , we picked up Dieudonné Lamothe , who had improved so much that he had entered forced retirement as the World's Slowest Olympic Runner - a skinny twenty - six - year - old security guard who believed the talent for running ...
... Pétionville , we picked up Dieudonné Lamothe , who had improved so much that he had entered forced retirement as the World's Slowest Olympic Runner - a skinny twenty - six - year - old security guard who believed the talent for running ...
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... Pétionville , bathing in the trickles in the ravines , among donkeys and goats , beautiful girls put down the baskets on their heads ; they seemed to be carefree , their laughter tinkling and pealing . No wonder some tourists could say ...
... Pétionville , bathing in the trickles in the ravines , among donkeys and goats , beautiful girls put down the baskets on their heads ; they seemed to be carefree , their laughter tinkling and pealing . No wonder some tourists could say ...
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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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