The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier

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Simon and Schuster, 1989 - History - 427 pages
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Recounting a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti's extraordinary past, the author brings to life the day-to-day realities of the politically turbulent country

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This welcome interpretation of Haiti provides many insights into a country that few North Americans understand. Wilentz, a journalist, captures the complex cultural ambience and mystery of domestic ... Read full review

Contents

Dreaming
15
Boutilliers
63
July 1987
95
Copyright

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Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now
Amy Wilentz
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Amy Wilentz
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Amy Wilentz
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About the author (1989)

Amy Wilentz is the author of "The Rainy Season", "Martyrs' Crossing", and "I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen". She has won the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. She writes for "The New Yorker" and "The Nation" and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at UC Irvine.

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TitleThe Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier
AuthorAmy Wilentz
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 1989
Original fromthe University of Virginia
Digitized25 Mar 2008
ISBN0671641867, 9780671641863
Length427 pages
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