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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... coffee with the tailor and his new wife , who said not a word as she sat with us . He sucked at sugar and sipped his coffee through it . " I have a few books , " he said , " a scholar I was not . My uncle was a rabbi , I think my ...
... coffee with the tailor and his new wife , who said not a word as she sat with us . He sucked at sugar and sipped his coffee through it . " I have a few books , " he said , " a scholar I was not . My uncle was a rabbi , I think my ...
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... coffee bushes for cooking fuel , the origins of Creole , the mission of France and of her sons in slavery . The Philosophers of Kenscoff , descended from both slaves and slave- holders , brooded continually upon the ironies of their ...
... coffee bushes for cooking fuel , the origins of Creole , the mission of France and of her sons in slavery . The Philosophers of Kenscoff , descended from both slaves and slave- holders , brooded continually upon the ironies of their ...
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... coffee and flour and rice . I stopped near the church where the Breton priest used to counsel his flock , and I used to watch the white - clad celebrants streaming in wearily for Sunday Mass after their night's session with the gods ...
... coffee and flour and rice . I stopped near the church where the Breton priest used to counsel his flock , and I used to watch the white - clad celebrants streaming in wearily for Sunday Mass after their night's session with the gods ...
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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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