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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... terrace . I marked the passage of years as the children of the band grew older , but no less enthusiastic about repeating their reper- tory of merengue classics . People came for Carnival , for Christmas , for birthdays , for a sexual ...
... terrace . I marked the passage of years as the children of the band grew older , but no less enthusiastic about repeating their reper- tory of merengue classics . People came for Carnival , for Christmas , for birthdays , for a sexual ...
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... terrace over his French toast à la Oloffson . " Had a good flight , did you ? " With his bag and his broom , Ferdinand arrived every few weeks to sweep the contents of the Haitian treasury into the numbered Swiss bank accounts . For ...
... terrace over his French toast à la Oloffson . " Had a good flight , did you ? " With his bag and his broom , Ferdinand arrived every few weeks to sweep the contents of the Haitian treasury into the numbered Swiss bank accounts . For ...
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... terrace of the Oloffson , that grand tropical memory bank , riding immortal on the backs of its termites . In the old days , various cads , scallawags , runaways , and remittance folks found their way here to answer all the conditions ...
... terrace of the Oloffson , that grand tropical memory bank , riding immortal on the backs of its termites . In the old days , various cads , scallawags , runaways , and remittance folks found their way here to answer all the conditions ...
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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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