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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... stared at each other . Our daughters had learned a language behind our backs ; from their friends in the neighborhood , of course , and from the servants , who were careful to speak only French with them in our presence but used the ...
... stared at each other . Our daughters had learned a language behind our backs ; from their friends in the neighborhood , of course , and from the servants , who were careful to speak only French with them in our presence but used the ...
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... to help me into the shower and marvel at how a fever could dry me off , without need of a towel , by the time she helped me back to bed . Her baby sister , Judy , touched my face and then stared at her 87 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
... to help me into the shower and marvel at how a fever could dry me off , without need of a towel , by the time she helped me back to bed . Her baby sister , Judy , touched my face and then stared at her 87 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
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... stared a moment , registering my American innocence , and then broke into that rolling Haitian laughter that charmed me when I first met him in 1954. " You don't understand yet ? We don't go out at night . It seems like the old days ...
... stared a moment , registering my American innocence , and then broke into that rolling Haitian laughter that charmed me when I first met him in 1954. " You don't understand yet ? We don't go out at night . It seems like the old days ...
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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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