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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... morning seemed both new and drenched in history like the sound - drenched morning air of Port - au- Prince , various and enticing . " These are selfish tears , " he had said , " because your foolishness is not my foolishness - if only I ...
... morning seemed both new and drenched in history like the sound - drenched morning air of Port - au- Prince , various and enticing . " These are selfish tears , " he had said , " because your foolishness is not my foolishness - if only I ...
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... morning ; time for a swim and a nap ; madly in love all evening ; and then hiphop back to New York by American Airlines next day , bearing souvenir bottles of Rhum Barbancourt , mahogany salad equipment , a painting , and one heck of a ...
... morning ; time for a swim and a nap ; madly in love all evening ; and then hiphop back to New York by American Airlines next day , bearing souvenir bottles of Rhum Barbancourt , mahogany salad equipment , a painting , and one heck of a ...
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... morning at breakfast a beaming , good - natured , deep- voiced , burly man headed straight for us . " I'm Peter - Paul , " he said . " How's my friend in San Francisco , Tony Lehman ? " This was Peter - Paul the Second , the True Peter ...
... morning at breakfast a beaming , good - natured , deep- voiced , burly man headed straight for us . " I'm Peter - Paul , " he said . " How's my friend in San Francisco , Tony Lehman ? " This was Peter - Paul the Second , the True Peter ...
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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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