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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... tropical dolce far niente , so beautifully evoked in these pages , must permanently tug the exile's heart , but alas , au fond it is the weirdness and the horror of the place that makes Haiti so compelling to out- siders . Mr. Gold ...
... tropical dolce far niente , so beautifully evoked in these pages , must permanently tug the exile's heart , but alas , au fond it is the weirdness and the horror of the place that makes Haiti so compelling to out- siders . Mr. Gold ...
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... tropical , Jean changed into a white linen suit and began to groan about the island where I was coming to spend the next year - the next year and , as it turned out , a part of every next day and night of my life . " Ah , Herb , go back ...
... tropical , Jean changed into a white linen suit and began to groan about the island where I was coming to spend the next year - the next year and , as it turned out , a part of every next day and night of my life . " Ah , Herb , go back ...
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... tropical rush , noise , heat , and harborside dust gave me a dizziness of expectation . I braced myself to sink into clamor as a team of port officials , sweating primly and stubbornly in clothes made for another climate , asked for my ...
... tropical rush , noise , heat , and harborside dust gave me a dizziness of expectation . I braced myself to sink into clamor as a team of port officials , sweating primly and stubbornly in clothes made for another climate , asked for my ...
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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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