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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... cello , and in Chicago her mother learned to play the violin and the piano . Stella could ride her pint - size cello , like a horsey , all the way to Chicago . Back to Chicago , she thinks , though she has never been there . But her ...
... cello - Yiddish , which only Mama knows . Aye , yi , yi , yi , yih ... Ah , yi , yi , yi , yih ... Mama's song becomes a violin whispering sorrow , without a syllable from any language . ON THE WAY HOME , the blue car with the Silver ...
... cello . " Yeah , Gloria , " Christine said slowly . " Reverend Shuttlesworth got broke ribs today . He in the hospital . I witnessed when the hose water struck him down . Me laying on the street . " " Sure am sorry to hear that ...
... bark , grew four stories tall , uprooted themselves , stalked the earth , and Gloria leapt high on her cello , which had turned into a pogo stick . EDMUND AT HOME WHEN EDMUND CAME HOME FROM VISITING HIS FOUR SPIRITS 39.
... cello teacher , Miss Ragrich , and the teacher had admired Stella's phrase . But where were the right words to render what it is to be alive ? To walk , to see ? She wanted the words of Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf . She pitied ...
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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 |