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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... trying to ask . Why is this child here ? How can such things be ? And what joke of fate dresses a dying child in a T ... tried the peanut - butter flavor . From up here , where it was cooler , looking at the steaming ruins below ...
... trying to ask . Why is this child here ? How can such things be ? And what joke of fate dresses a dying child in a T ... tried the peanut - butter flavor . From up here , where it was cooler , looking at the steaming ruins below ...
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... tried to vote and were shot down by uniformed soldiers . This time the men in khaki were regulating the election and people were trying not to vote . It was like the fire engines running away from the fires . The exercise of a freedom ...
... tried to vote and were shot down by uniformed soldiers . This time the men in khaki were regulating the election and people were trying not to vote . It was like the fire engines running away from the fires . The exercise of a freedom ...
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... tried to limit their participation in drug smuggling . He tried to be President ! General Namphy soon packed him off to a hotel in Santo Do- mingo , where he slept in what came to be known as " the Presidential Suite " because so ...
... tried to limit their participation in drug smuggling . He tried to be President ! General Namphy soon packed him off to a hotel in Santo Do- mingo , where he slept in what came to be known as " the Presidential Suite " because so ...
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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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