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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... called collaboration . A former friend called him Papa Doc's Albert Speer . The best writers were trying to express the conflicts between a static peasant culture , country people following African traditions , and the feudal society ...
... called collaboration . A former friend called him Papa Doc's Albert Speer . The best writers were trying to express the conflicts between a static peasant culture , country people following African traditions , and the feudal society ...
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... called Jewfish . In another village it was called poisson israélite . And in another , poisson Assad , because it had been found on lands belonging to a man named Assad , a Lebanese . Tal played with my children , sat with my wife ...
... called Jewfish . In another village it was called poisson israélite . And in another , poisson Assad , because it had been found on lands belonging to a man named Assad , a Lebanese . Tal played with my children , sat with my wife ...
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... called Bonjour as my jeep slowed on hairpin turns . Peas- ants were washing themselves and their vegetables in the streams . The black Haitian pigs , those nervous unbarking nondogs , ran free , along with chickens and children . Below ...
... called Bonjour as my jeep slowed on hairpin turns . Peas- ants were washing themselves and their vegetables in the streams . The black Haitian pigs , those nervous unbarking nondogs , ran free , along with chickens and children . Below ...
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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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