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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... laughing Haitian singer and dancer . I went to the library to look up scholarships and fellowships and applied for one to take me to the Université d'Haiti . In due course , I was on a ship traveling from New York to Panama , with a ...
... laughing Haitian singer and dancer . I went to the library to look up scholarships and fellowships and applied for one to take me to the Université d'Haiti . In due course , I was on a ship traveling from New York to Panama , with a ...
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... Nouvelliste , the oldest daily newspaper , denouncing me as a racist for not acknowl- edging the preeminent sublimity of the Haitian writer . Laughing , he presented me with an advance copy , and then embraced 5 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
... Nouvelliste , the oldest daily newspaper , denouncing me as a racist for not acknowl- edging the preeminent sublimity of the Haitian writer . Laughing , he presented me with an advance copy , and then embraced 5 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
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... laughing and pointing at us , a whole class was running after the crazy runners , like the tail to a kite . " Blanc , you're still sweating ! " We were , and they were running after us , screaming with plea- sure . Even the teachers ...
... laughing and pointing at us , a whole class was running after the crazy runners , like the tail to a kite . " Blanc , you're still sweating ! " We were , and they were running after us , screaming with plea- sure . Even the teachers ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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