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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... daughter , who now lived on West Ninety - second Street in New York , and his son , an engineering stu- dent . " There is a Riverside Drive Park , " he said . " Mes - z - amis , they can dress up my grandchildren in pretty clothes and ...
... daughter , who now lived on West Ninety - second Street in New York , and his son , an engineering stu- dent . " There is a Riverside Drive Park , " he said . " Mes - z - amis , they can dress up my grandchildren in pretty clothes and ...
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... daughter , his wife , and his widow . Now she lived in one of the gingerbread houses of Canapé - Vert on a cooler slope above the city . She was still doing okay as a madam in her own establishment , making a resigned but optimistic ...
... daughter , his wife , and his widow . Now she lived in one of the gingerbread houses of Canapé - Vert on a cooler slope above the city . She was still doing okay as a madam in her own establishment , making a resigned but optimistic ...
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... daughter . She was afraid of the police . She thought she was being arrested . During the Duvalier days , many of those arrested never returned . Hysterical , she fell and knocked her head against a rock . She was loaded , stunned ...
... daughter . She was afraid of the police . She thought she was being arrested . During the Duvalier days , many of those arrested never returned . Hysterical , she fell and knocked her head against a rock . She was loaded , stunned ...
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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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