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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... stared at each other . Our daughters had learned a language behind our backs ; from their friends in the neighborhood , of course , and from the servants , who were careful to speak only French with them in our presence but used the ...
... stared at each other . Our daughters had learned a language behind our backs ; from their friends in the neighborhood , of course , and from the servants , who were careful to speak only French with them in our presence but used the ...
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... stared at the swift path the dog had taken and said : " You are American . You can help Haiti . You can find it in your heart to do this ? " UN had NTIL THREE days before this visit , I had planned to bring my fifteen - year - old son ...
... stared at the swift path the dog had taken and said : " You are American . You can help Haiti . You can find it in your heart to do this ? " UN had NTIL THREE days before this visit , I had planned to bring my fifteen - year - old son ...
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A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold. with the people without . She stared at a woman feeding a child rice and beans and asked me to translate her question : " Don't you think you're overdoing it on the carbo - loading ? " There was incomprehen ...
A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold. with the people without . She stared at a woman feeding a child rice and beans and asked me to translate her question : " Don't you think you're overdoing it on the carbo - loading ? " There was incomprehen ...
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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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