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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... dream , the conditions of life were bad dreams , the future was a nightmare . A person didn't have to fall asleep to see demons . But after a rum - soda , he calmed himself and benignly watched my daughters , Ann and Judy , at play ...
... dream , the conditions of life were bad dreams , the future was a nightmare . A person didn't have to fall asleep to see demons . But after a rum - soda , he calmed himself and benignly watched my daughters , Ann and Judy , at play ...
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... dream - his sister or the Virgin Mary , he was not prepared to say which — and commanded him : " Prefète ! From now on you are a First he painted on wood , on pieces of wood or planks or board ; then he learned to use canvas . Life on ...
... dream - his sister or the Virgin Mary , he was not prepared to say which — and commanded him : " Prefète ! From now on you are a First he painted on wood , on pieces of wood or planks or board ; then he learned to use canvas . Life on ...
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... dream , ” I said . " I have a dream of golf carts with hundreds of retired corporate officers , their caps worn rakishly backwards on their heads , speeding from the fairway back to the condominium for cocktails ... I have a dream ...
... dream , ” I said . " I have a dream of golf carts with hundreds of retired corporate officers , their caps worn rakishly backwards on their heads , speeding from the fairway back to the condominium for cocktails ... I have a dream ...
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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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