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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... answered , and she let herself smile . She imagined somebody with a tape measure , holding it , impossibly , from a flying robin down to the ground . She loved the idea - so unexpected , silly but fascinating , to juxtapose a flying ...
... answered . " King and Abernathy . You here . Where they ? " The boy shrugged . He retreated back into the ignorance of youth ; he was little , he could shrug and say " I don't know , " but he smiled when he said it , like sunshine , he ...
... answered . She was descending the stairs behind him . This way Darl could catch her if she stumbled , break her fall . It was like walking on the street side ; his mother had taught him manners : a gen- tleman should be killed first ...
... answered . " And the water ain't more than a yard deep anyplace . It's an open sewer . " Bobby tried to hold back his tears . He had imagined the water of the creek to be a bright blue with a fish hopping out of it , smiling , like in ...
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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 |