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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... macoutes were being gently reigned in . Lacking a taste for terror and torture , Jean - Claude preferred to play with his toy cars and his motorcycles . His father , who liked to be thought the incarnation of Baron Samedi , guardian of ...
... macoutes were being gently reigned in . Lacking a taste for terror and torture , Jean - Claude preferred to play with his toy cars and his motorcycles . His father , who liked to be thought the incarnation of Baron Samedi , guardian of ...
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... macoutes had regrouped , many protected by Army uniforms ; " integrated into the social struc- ture . " An entry - level macoute , just good for standing and glowering , stood and glowered at me . He reminded me of William S. Burroughs ...
... macoutes had regrouped , many protected by Army uniforms ; " integrated into the social struc- ture . " An entry - level macoute , just good for standing and glowering , stood and glowered at me . He reminded me of William S. Burroughs ...
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... macoutes , of course , because the tonton macoutes were disbanded when the revolution came . But they looked like macoutes , they slouched like macoutes , they stared at the guests of the hotel like macoutes . But they couldn't be macoutes ...
... macoutes , of course , because the tonton macoutes were disbanded when the revolution came . But they looked like macoutes , they slouched like macoutes , they stared at the guests of the hotel like macoutes . But they couldn't be macoutes ...
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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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