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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... President . A buyer for the notion counter of a department store became a " gros commerçant " and the pale cowboy who turned out Western stories at two cents a word was buttered up as a " grand écrivain de notre amical voisin nord ...
... President . A buyer for the notion counter of a department store became a " gros commerçant " and the pale cowboy who turned out Western stories at two cents a word was buttered up as a " grand écrivain de notre amical voisin nord ...
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... President - Select Manigat began to seem like a prophet in his own time . " Democracy is a bay - bee . " THE BRIEF REIGN OF LESLIE MANIGAT Like a good parent , President - Select Manigat wished to spend quality time with his new baby ...
... President - Select Manigat began to seem like a prophet in his own time . " Democracy is a bay - bee . " THE BRIEF REIGN OF LESLIE MANIGAT Like a good parent , President - Select Manigat wished to spend quality time with his new baby ...
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... President trundled friends and rivals off to Taipei , began to speak : " We have given one of the most beautiful examples to the civilization of the entire world in our morality , disci- pline , and political maturity during the voyage ...
... President trundled friends and rivals off to Taipei , began to speak : " We have given one of the most beautiful examples to the civilization of the entire world in our morality , disci- pline , and political maturity during the voyage ...
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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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