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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... smiling young man was tossing - no , was being tossed - and from his mouth was pouring a stream of violent abuse of Alaice Fils - Aimé - de - Dieu , the lowest of the low , cursed on earth and in heaven . It was the hoarse and cruel ...
... smiling young man was tossing - no , was being tossed - and from his mouth was pouring a stream of violent abuse of Alaice Fils - Aimé - de - Dieu , the lowest of the low , cursed on earth and in heaven . It was the hoarse and cruel ...
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... smiling and knew I would live . He told me about the other Israeli in Haiti - Morgen , a tomato farmer . He called himself an Israeli , and therefore Tal considered him what he said he was , though he spoke no Hebrew . He grew tomatoes ...
... smiling and knew I would live . He told me about the other Israeli in Haiti - Morgen , a tomato farmer . He called himself an Israeli , and therefore Tal considered him what he said he was , though he spoke no Hebrew . He grew tomatoes ...
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... smiling , and dressed like a boy at the beach with a toy bucket and shovel for digging in the sand . The smiling German had come back to the fun , but perhaps for the sake of safe nonsex , he spent his days and nights in unsafe drink ...
... smiling , and dressed like a boy at the beach with a toy bucket and shovel for digging in the sand . The smiling German had come back to the fun , but perhaps for the sake of safe nonsex , he spent his days and nights in unsafe drink ...
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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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