Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... Minister Constant , abruptly alert , blowing his horn at the guard to open the barbed - wire gate . We drove up and down the landing strip . " Ah oui , Excellence ! " cried Bruno . " Will also be airplanes ? " asked Conchita , the ...
... Minister Constant , abruptly alert , blowing his horn at the guard to open the barbed - wire gate . We drove up and down the landing strip . " Ah oui , Excellence ! " cried Bruno . " Will also be airplanes ? " asked Conchita , the ...
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... Minister mopped his brow and consented . The Mexican diplomat and student had a way of standing and stretching , her skinny belly extended , as if she had surely once been a plumper person , an innocent and gawky child . Minister ...
... Minister mopped his brow and consented . The Mexican diplomat and student had a way of standing and stretching , her skinny belly extended , as if she had surely once been a plumper person , an innocent and gawky child . Minister ...
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... Minister . The Minister turned them over and approved them as he might have approved the vintage of the wine . Now lunch was being laid out al fresco for us— avocado salad with tomatoes and cucumbers from Kenscoff , lobster and ham ...
... Minister . The Minister turned them over and approved them as he might have approved the vintage of the wine . Now lunch was being laid out al fresco for us— avocado salad with tomatoes and cucumbers from Kenscoff , lobster and ham ...
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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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