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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... telling the jokes , fixing the parking tickets . Sandy - haired , skinny , and busy , he considered his ... tell me . Alois was writing a novel , and would I read it ? " When it's done , " I suggested . This is not as safe a ...
... telling the jokes , fixing the parking tickets . Sandy - haired , skinny , and busy , he considered his ... tell me . Alois was writing a novel , and would I read it ? " When it's done , " I suggested . This is not as safe a ...
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... Tell me what you think , mon cher ! Tell me everything ! " ( Quick , quick ! ) He used to ask : " What will save us ? " Now he asked : " Have you ever seen anything worse than this place ? " " You look comfortable here , Jean . " His ...
... Tell me what you think , mon cher ! Tell me everything ! " ( Quick , quick ! ) He used to ask : " What will save us ? " Now he asked : " Have you ever seen anything worse than this place ? " " You look comfortable here , Jean . " His ...
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... tell him Petitpierre longs to share his life with one of the masters of Anglo - Saxon prose ! " He shot me the familiar we - know - the - secret - services - are - all- linked look . That all journalists were CIA was as real in Haiti as ...
... tell him Petitpierre longs to share his life with one of the masters of Anglo - Saxon prose ! " He shot me the familiar we - know - the - secret - services - are - all- linked look . That all journalists were CIA was as real in Haiti as ...
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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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