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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... Aubelin Jolicoeur , the skinny , squealing , white - suited journalist who did his best to befriend all visiting writers and young women . He had an enthusiastic memory for classic literature , philosophy , and Port - au - Prince gossip ...
... Aubelin Jolicoeur , the skinny , squealing , white - suited journalist who did his best to befriend all visiting writers and young women . He had an enthusiastic memory for classic literature , philosophy , and Port - au - Prince gossip ...
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... Aubelin Jolicoeur — a photograph of a bare - breasted Creole maiden - upon which Aubie had inscribed a kind of visa : Herb . Please . You may come home . The distinguished white - suited journalist , tourist official , man- about ...
... Aubelin Jolicoeur — a photograph of a bare - breasted Creole maiden - upon which Aubie had inscribed a kind of visa : Herb . Please . You may come home . The distinguished white - suited journalist , tourist official , man- about ...
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... Aubelin Jolicoeur ! You have read The Comedians ? You have seen the movie ? The actor he play me was black genius track star at Yale , Mister Roscoe Lee Browne ! I am Aubelin Jolicoeur , the Herb Caen of my beautiful country of Haiti ...
... Aubelin Jolicoeur ! You have read The Comedians ? You have seen the movie ? The actor he play me was black genius track star at Yale , Mister Roscoe Lee Browne ! I am Aubelin Jolicoeur , the Herb Caen of my beautiful country of Haiti ...
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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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