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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... pigs without body hair . They resemble big creamy Iowa pigs , but they are loup- garous . The doggy black Haitian pigs are the good guys . Sometimes a horse , a sheep , especially the ones who baa at night , an owl , even a glowworm or ...
... pigs without body hair . They resemble big creamy Iowa pigs , but they are loup- garous . The doggy black Haitian pigs are the good guys . Sometimes a horse , a sheep , especially the ones who baa at night , an owl , even a glowworm or ...
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... electricity ! Soon purified water ! " cried the Minister . Bruno was moving his lips . Gretchen was dozing . Conchita wanted to know when the picnic began . “ That is a pig ? " she remarked . In Mexico the pigs 147 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
... electricity ! Soon purified water ! " cried the Minister . Bruno was moving his lips . Gretchen was dozing . Conchita wanted to know when the picnic began . “ That is a pig ? " she remarked . In Mexico the pigs 147 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
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... pig . They would eventually replace the Haitian pigs with huge pink and white American porkers . But that wasn't the point . The American pigs , clumsy and stumbly , couldn't be led to market on a string . They weren't cute , they weren ...
... pig . They would eventually replace the Haitian pigs with huge pink and white American porkers . But that wasn't the point . The American pigs , clumsy and stumbly , couldn't be led to market on a string . They weren't cute , they weren ...
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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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