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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... running in God's fistful of Carib- bean island . Even if the Haitian Olympic runners finished last in Montreal — a kind of distinction , after all - they ran . They continued to run . Dieu- donné Lamothe was now far from the world's ...
... running in God's fistful of Carib- bean island . Even if the Haitian Olympic runners finished last in Montreal — a kind of distinction , after all - they ran . They continued to run . Dieu- donné Lamothe was now far from the world's ...
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... run no place else . He struck out with his geological explorations and his first wood factory , but he was happier in Port - au - Prince than in Queens . Haiti was an addiction , like run- ning ; sometimes painful , like running . I ...
... run no place else . He struck out with his geological explorations and his first wood factory , but he was happier in Port - au - Prince than in Queens . Haiti was an addiction , like run- ning ; sometimes painful , like running . I ...
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... running one of the trails from Kenscoff to Furcy . The others planned to do about eleven miles ; I planned to do a ... running after the crazy runners , like the tail to a kite . " Blanc , you're still sweating ! " We were , and ...
... running one of the trails from Kenscoff to Furcy . The others planned to do about eleven miles ; I planned to do a ... running after the crazy runners , like the tail to a kite . " Blanc , you're still sweating ! " We were , and ...
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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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