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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... painter of zombies . There seemed to be a pattern of facial expression in Haitian painting , different from the exaggerations of other folk painters . Of- ten the eyes were done as disturbing emblems , looking in rather than out . The ...
... painter of zombies . There seemed to be a pattern of facial expression in Haitian painting , different from the exaggerations of other folk painters . Of- ten the eyes were done as disturbing emblems , looking in rather than out . The ...
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... painting , name a large price for it , receive her regretful no . But he could tell she liked the painting . Toward the end of her stay , he would sigh with love . " You must have this authentic masterpiece of my people . I give it to ...
... painting , name a large price for it , receive her regretful no . But he could tell she liked the painting . Toward the end of her stay , he would sigh with love . " You must have this authentic masterpiece of my people . I give it to ...
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... painted cast - iron circus of thrills , hag- gles , craftsmanship , diseases , beggars , donkeys , meat and tin and painting , was a boiling African market in which people were born and died and found bargains going each way . Annual ...
... painted cast - iron circus of thrills , hag- gles , craftsmanship , diseases , beggars , donkeys , meat and tin and painting , was a boiling African market in which people were born and died and found bargains going each way . Annual ...
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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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