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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... village , the village cock . Well , for one thing , he seemed to be the father of most of the nearby children . He rode with the vanity . He removed himself into himself , 105 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
... village , the village cock . Well , for one thing , he seemed to be the father of most of the nearby children . He rode with the vanity . He removed himself into himself , 105 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
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... village to keep him company every afternoon amid the mounds of beans , the scales , the steel barrels . The group included a retired Haitian senator , a doctor - lawyer ( degrees from Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a ...
... village to keep him company every afternoon amid the mounds of beans , the scales , the steel barrels . The group included a retired Haitian senator , a doctor - lawyer ( degrees from Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a ...
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... village to see how people were surviving . We brought money to offer the ma- coutes at the roadblocks . " The place feels like a lighted fuse , " I said . " The fuse isn't even lit yet . It's just rotting . " The village near Croix ...
... village to see how people were surviving . We brought money to offer the ma- coutes at the roadblocks . " The place feels like a lighted fuse , " I said . " The fuse isn't even lit yet . It's just rotting . " The village near Croix ...
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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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