Four Spirits: A NovelHarper Collins, 2009 M03 17 - 560 páginas Weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sena Jeter Naslund creates a tapestry of American social transformation at once intimate and epic. In Birmingham, Alabama, twenty-year-old Stella Silver, an idealistic white college student, is sent reeling off her measured path by events of 1963. Combining political activism with single parenting and night-school teaching, African American Christine Taylor discovers she must heal her own bruised heart to actualize meaningful social change. Inspired by the courage and commitment of the civil rights movement, the child Edmund Powers embodies hope for future change. In this novel of maturation and growth, Naslund makes vital the intersection of spiritual, political, and moral forces that have redefined America. |
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... Stella wears her faded overalls with the bib over her chest that always makes her feel safe . Perhaps ( Stella imagines ) the bullet she has fired dodges all the tree trunks in the woods before her ; perhaps the bullet takes no toll but ...
... Stella's mother never sang a word about Jesus . Before he dies , Mama had explained to the children in the car , but the chil- dren are not to tell anybody at Helicon , he wants to visit . He wants to see again the woman he always ...
... Stella that Mama has no use for guns . But during the parade , Stella had heard her murmur , " Blessed guns , blessed boys . " Stella had gotten bored ; there were so many soldiers , all dressed in brown ; one block after another , then ...
... Stella believes she could shake this house right off the stacks of rocks that hold it up at each corner . Perhaps she could pick up the little house , with them inside , and carry it to Birmingham . But Stella does not want to stop at ...
... Stella has a playhouse with just such a window attached only to its frame by hinges on one side . Inside the playhouse , Stella and Nancy , her beautiful best friend , pretend that dirt is flour and mix their mud pies . Stella wonders ...
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Christine at Home | 63 |
Fred Shuttlesworth | 70 |
The Telephone the Microphone | 81 |
Afternoon Roses | 286 |
View from Outside | 310 |
A Friend of the Body | 334 |
Dear Donny | 353 |
In the Basement | 361 |
Whats the Matter? | 377 |
Lionel Watching | 395 |
Agness Honeybees | 403 |
Christine and Gloria | 100 |
After Business Hours | 106 |
At the Gaslight | 112 |
Gloria | 129 |
Susan Spenser Oaks | 141 |
The Face of Christ | 152 |
I Begin Work and Study | 172 |
Box of Moonlight | 181 |
New Work New Life | 247 |
Living It Again | 274 |
Jonathan the Pianist | 409 |
Edmund | 423 |
Lionel | 452 |
Gloria | 460 |
Joseph CoatofManyColors | 467 |
Jonathan | 487 |
Helicon Homecoming | 515 |
Authors Note | 521 |