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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... tropical twilight , I sat on a rock and waited for night . Sometimes in the glow of moon and star- light , strolling alone on a dirt path , I would hear the soft sounds of peasants in their huts , the appeals of children and the ...
... tropical twilight , I sat on a rock and waited for night . Sometimes in the glow of moon and star- light , strolling alone on a dirt path , I would hear the soft sounds of peasants in their huts , the appeals of children and the ...
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... tropical sex crisis . When one - day divorces were the vogue , there was a rapid turnaround — still married in the morning ; time for a swim and a nap ; madly in love all evening ; and then hiphop back to New York by American Airlines ...
... tropical sex crisis . When one - day divorces were the vogue , there was a rapid turnaround — still married in the morning ; time for a swim and a nap ; madly in love all evening ; and then hiphop back to New York by American Airlines ...
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... tropical hospitals . They stood about gossiping , flirting , or studying like students anywhere , in the midst of a continual smol- dering war between the succession of regimes and the people . History bears down like the tropical sun ...
... tropical hospitals . They stood about gossiping , flirting , or studying like students anywhere , in the midst of a continual smol- dering war between the succession of regimes and the people . History bears down like the tropical sun ...
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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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