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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... Tourist , don't take my picture Don't take my picture , tourist I'm too ugly I'm too dirty I'm too skinny My donkey is overloaded My house is made of straw ... Your camera isn't used to such things , tourist . Intelligent people clung ...
... Tourist , don't take my picture Don't take my picture , tourist I'm too ugly I'm too dirty I'm too skinny My donkey is overloaded My house is made of straw ... Your camera isn't used to such things , tourist . Intelligent people clung ...
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... Tourists , that Haiti is a tourist haven , our various com- patriots would find their way to spend their currency under the bril- liant tropical sky of Dr. François Duvalier . The Mexican , very young , very thin , with long straight ...
... Tourists , that Haiti is a tourist haven , our various com- patriots would find their way to spend their currency under the bril- liant tropical sky of Dr. François Duvalier . The Mexican , very young , very thin , with long straight ...
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... tourist left over from the times when Haiti was a magic kingdom for gay explorers , then for gay loveboat expeditions . He was several inches over six feet tall , but hunched , never stopped smiling , and dressed like a boy at the beach ...
... tourist left over from the times when Haiti was a magic kingdom for gay explorers , then for gay loveboat expeditions . He was several inches over six feet tall , but hunched , never stopped smiling , and dressed like a boy at the beach ...
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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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