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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... Paris of northeastern Ohio , to await the fame and riches which would surely fall from the heavens ( New York ) after publication of my first novel . The novel came out ; I hurried to the Post Office in the Public Square ; my picture ...
... Paris of northeastern Ohio , to await the fame and riches which would surely fall from the heavens ( New York ) after publication of my first novel . The novel came out ; I hurried to the Post Office in the Public Square ; my picture ...
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... Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a schoolmaster , an occasional honored guest . Sometimes the guest was the Breton village priest , although the Phi- losophers were all nonbelievers ; sometimes it was the American writer ...
... Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a schoolmaster , an occasional honored guest . Sometimes the guest was the Breton village priest , although the Phi- losophers were all nonbelievers ; sometimes it was the American writer ...
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... Paris , I enjoyed a happy reunion with an old friend from Haiti . A businessman , he was wealthy enough to travel , and although he occasionally spent a few nights in jail , and had scars to show for it , he was still opposed to the ...
... Paris , I enjoyed a happy reunion with an old friend from Haiti . A businessman , he was wealthy enough to travel , and although he occasionally spent a few nights in jail , and had scars to show for it , he was still opposed to the ...
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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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