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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... night - flying loup- garous who leave their skin behind in some nice cool place . A good friend of my friend happened to awake one night and his wife was gone . He got up to look for her . Oh - oh . Her skin lay empty near a jar of ...
... night - flying loup- garous who leave their skin behind in some nice cool place . A good friend of my friend happened to awake one night and his wife was gone . He got up to look for her . Oh - oh . Her skin lay empty near a jar of ...
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... night . The government stole from everything — including the voodoo religion . And the hunger was - is - everywhere . At any hour of the day or night , wherever you go , people are stripping sugarcane , peeling ba- nanas , crunching ...
... night . The government stole from everything — including the voodoo religion . And the hunger was - is - everywhere . At any hour of the day or night , wherever you go , people are stripping sugarcane , peeling ba- nanas , crunching ...
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... night I visited friends who live in Pacot , a district of the traditional middle class - sweet - smelling gardens , walls with climb- ing plants , comfortable houses . I used to like to wander in Pacot at night , taking the cool evening ...
... night I visited friends who live in Pacot , a district of the traditional middle class - sweet - smelling gardens , walls with climb- ing plants , comfortable houses . I used to like to wander in Pacot at night , taking the cool evening ...
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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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