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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... airport tends to discourage tourism , He shook his plump jowls . " In our painstaking vigilance— Haitians , mon vieux , are renowned for their patriotism - we even looked in the Tampax at the new airport built entirely with Haitian ...
... airport tends to discourage tourism , He shook his plump jowls . " In our painstaking vigilance— Haitians , mon vieux , are renowned for their patriotism - we even looked in the Tampax at the new airport built entirely with Haitian ...
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... airport with the por- trait of the boy President - for - Life in imperial uniform and the mes- sage : THE HOPE OF ALL THE PEOPLE . The cult of Baby Doc was part of the fun . The airport band played " Haiti Chérie , " " Panama'm Tombé ...
... airport with the por- trait of the boy President - for - Life in imperial uniform and the mes- sage : THE HOPE OF ALL THE PEOPLE . The cult of Baby Doc was part of the fun . The airport band played " Haiti Chérie , " " Panama'm Tombé ...
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... airport to emplane for a Caribbean marathon , the flight took off without them . No one arrived with the tickets ... airport . He didn't go and was so depressed he didn't run again for two months . A Cayman Islands meet . Same ...
... airport to emplane for a Caribbean marathon , the flight took off without them . No one arrived with the tickets ... airport . He didn't go and was so depressed he didn't run again for two months . A Cayman Islands meet . Same ...
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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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