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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... voodoo ceremonies together . Often we just sat in his hutlike little house as the tropical day rapidly closed down , and remained sitting by the light of an oil lamp or by no light at all , and he sipped from his glass of rum and ...
... voodoo ceremonies together . Often we just sat in his hutlike little house as the tropical day rapidly closed down , and remained sitting by the light of an oil lamp or by no light at all , and he sipped from his glass of rum and ...
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... Voodoo ceremonies still included Latin ritual and the mincing steps of the court dancers at Versailles among African paroxysms and styliza- tions . When I visited André Pierre , painter and priest , in his hounfor ( temple ) , he had a ...
... Voodoo ceremonies still included Latin ritual and the mincing steps of the court dancers at Versailles among African paroxysms and styliza- tions . When I visited André Pierre , painter and priest , in his hounfor ( temple ) , he had a ...
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... voodoo ceremonies demanded a sacrifice of the cochon planche , the little bugger . One theory is that Baby Doc was brought down by the pig tragedy . The CIA did it . The Iowa farmers working through the CIA did it . The Americans came ...
... voodoo ceremonies demanded a sacrifice of the cochon planche , the little bugger . One theory is that Baby Doc was brought down by the pig tragedy . The CIA did it . The Iowa farmers working through the CIA did it . The Americans came ...
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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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