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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... Watch out , a loupgarou will do anything . The peasants were so accustomed to their lives of marauding struggle that they viewed any good luck with suspicion . A man has the money to build a new house because he's a loupgarou . And then ...
... Watch out , a loupgarou will do anything . The peasants were so accustomed to their lives of marauding struggle that they viewed any good luck with suspicion . A man has the money to build a new house because he's a loupgarou . And then ...
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... man who disseminated the Jewfish . He would have liked his daughters on the kibbutz to learn the secrets of Creole grace from the languorous doctoresse , Felice Goldenberg . One morning he rousted me at dawn to come watch 104 HERBERT GOLD.
... man who disseminated the Jewfish . He would have liked his daughters on the kibbutz to learn the secrets of Creole grace from the languorous doctoresse , Felice Goldenberg . One morning he rousted me at dawn to come watch 104 HERBERT GOLD.
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... watch . He nodded encouragingly . Although I had bought the watch on my own , he bore no grudges . When I finished , he said : " Now you're just like me — ten minutes ahead of everybody else . " N SUNDAY , election day , I would drive ...
... watch . He nodded encouragingly . Although I had bought the watch on my own , he bore no grudges . When I finished , he said : " Now you're just like me — ten minutes ahead of everybody else . " N SUNDAY , election day , I would drive ...
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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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