Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth"In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for making high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people."-Chicago Tribune Book World "Goldhas a sharp eye for detail."-The Washington Times Magazine "Not just a good book, but a great one."-London Daily Mail "Herbert Goldgives his stories a wry, bright air of wonderhe is a born storyteller."-New York Times "One of the most gifted writers in America."-Detroit News Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation-his second home-remains as passionate and powerful as ever. Now, in Best Nightmare on Earth, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land. " Herbert Gold reflects on the country's history and politics, culture and folklore, but sees much more. He sees Haiti through the eyes of a lover: impassioned, jealous, probing, ever alert, and alive. This book will be of interest to travelers to, and people interested in the problems of, Haiti and the Caribbean; and collectors of Haitian art. Herbert Gold is a novelist, short writer, essayist, sometime journalist, who has made his living as a writer for fifty years. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - cblaker - LibraryThingAs recently as the 1980s a "werewolf" was publicly burned in Haiti. If that sentence doesn't intrigue, I'm not sure anything will. The werewolf this is part of Voodoo beliefs (and the belief makes ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - SeriousGrace - LibraryThingHerbert Gold discovered Haiti on a Fulbright Scholarship. This was to be the beginning of an addiction to a hellish paradise. For the next forty years Gold traveled between the States and the ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Chapter Six Castaways | 75 |
Chapter Seven Land Without Jews | 91 |
Chapter Eight The Philosophers Circle | 109 |
Chapter Nine The Darkest Ages | 123 |
Chapter Ten Here Is the Young Leader that | 157 |
Chapter Eleven In Haiti They Run From | 181 |
Chapter Twelve Minglers | 203 |
Chapter Thirteen The Perfect Dear | 219 |
1986 | 233 |
Chapter Fifteen After the Dawn Came Another Night | 251 |
Chapter Sixteen Wonder of the World | 283 |
Afterword | 305 |
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