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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... Port - de - Paix : where I searched for buried pirate treasure but found ... Prince to Jacmel . ( I had done no actual roadwork , but wrote about the ... Port - au - Prince : the antheap capital of the République , where ...
... Port - de - Paix : where I searched for buried pirate treasure but found ... Prince to Jacmel . ( I had done no actual roadwork , but wrote about the ... Port - au - Prince : the antheap capital of the République , where ...
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... 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 brought me back to my ...
... 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 brought me back to my ...
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... Port - au - Prince with Matt Cucchiara . Later , a visitor arrived from New York , a friend whom I had enticed with the story of running in Haiti . ( " Are you crazy ? " " Are you ? " " Well , I'll bring my diving equipment . " ) But I ...
... Port - au - Prince with Matt Cucchiara . Later , a visitor arrived from New York , a friend whom I had enticed with the story of running in Haiti . ( " Are you crazy ? " " Are you ? " " Well , I'll bring my diving equipment . " ) But I ...
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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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