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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... lived luxuriously , and ruled over the millions of the poor , uneducated Creole - speakers . Of course , when they made love , joked , grew angry , or commanded servants , the elite also spoke the language of childhood , that rich and ...
... lived luxuriously , and ruled over the millions of the poor , uneducated Creole - speakers . Of course , when they made love , joked , grew angry , or commanded servants , the elite also spoke the language of childhood , that rich and ...
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... lived in the north , near Cap Haitien , which at that time had no good road link with Port- au - Prince . I gave him some money and sent him off . I wondered if we would ever see him again . In a few days he came trudging through the ...
... lived in the north , near Cap Haitien , which at that time had no good road link with Port- au - Prince . I gave him some money and sent him off . I wondered if we would ever see him again . In a few days he came trudging through the ...
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... lived in a little house on con- crete blocks , crowded with the debris of equipment , a shortwave radio and inoperative telephone , photographs and piled - up maga- zines , bare bulbs hanging , a disconnected Zenith record player . He ...
... lived in a little house on con- crete blocks , crowded with the debris of equipment , a shortwave radio and inoperative telephone , photographs and piled - up maga- zines , bare bulbs hanging , a disconnected Zenith record player . He ...
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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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