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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... drove me to the village of Croix - des - Bouquets where there was a cemetery with graves mounted by weird cast - iron cruci- fixes , as jagged and threatening and agonized as barbed wire . Some- times there seemed to be figures ...
... drove me to the village of Croix - des - Bouquets where there was a cemetery with graves mounted by weird cast - iron cruci- fixes , as jagged and threatening and agonized as barbed wire . Some- times there seemed to be figures ...
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... drove up the curving , palm - lined driveway at the Oloffson . We were a party of six , a German diplomat , Bruno ... drove . When he felt himself falling asleep , he drove very slowly . Otherwise he conversed with laborious ...
... drove up the curving , palm - lined driveway at the Oloffson . We were a party of six , a German diplomat , Bruno ... drove . When he felt himself falling asleep , he drove very slowly . Otherwise he conversed with laborious ...
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... drove two air - conditioned Rolls - Royces , keeping a spare in case the other needed washing . The old elite , often educated and worldly , was sometimes even idealistic and generous . The early appeal of Papa Doc had come from his ...
... drove two air - conditioned Rolls - Royces , keeping a spare in case the other needed washing . The old elite , often educated and worldly , was sometimes even idealistic and generous . The early appeal of Papa Doc had come from his ...
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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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