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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... brothers are standing behind , Stella sees nothing but trees , their slender pine bodies upright and endless as the sol- diers marching down Twentieth Street in the Birmingham Armistice Day parade . In the piney forest , Stella holds ...
... brothers peeked and saw her sleeping - Old Aunt Charlotte , the one Who - Was - Born - into - Slavery . Not her son Christopher Columbus Jones , whose hair was cotton - boll white on his dark head , not her gaunt - cheeked daughter ...
... brothers had lifted and squared their shoulders . Just like a flatiron , Mama's hand had pressed right up Stella's spine to straighten it . Now while the pistol bullets wander forever in the wilderness of woods , Stella and her family ...
... brothers and parents have caught up with her , and the little Silver family clomps into the shanty . A faint ambiance of pride moves along with them , above their noisy feet , because her father's people had been small land- owners ...
... brothers . No words at all are uttered over the boys , when the brown fingers slowly muss their hair . The boys have been neglected , and she , the girl , has been selected . Blessed girl ! and the world is illumined as never before ...
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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 |