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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... colored folks . And then while he drove the car toward Helicon , he sang his children his favorite Methodist Sunday school song : " Jesus loves the little children , / all the children of the world ; / red and yellow , black and white ...
... colored - folks dark . Swarthy - that is the word Charlotte wants . It comes drifting up through the decades in her mind , comes to her from fifty , no sixty , maybe seventy years ago . Swarthy - complected . But all these children ...
... colored children gathered , the pawns of their leaders . If only people could be patient , God had his plan . The air over the city had not been invisible but perceptible as a gray haze hovering over the tiny buildings and trees . When ...
... COLORED and WHITE signs on the drinking fountains . Just one fountain , and a plastic tube of paper cups beside it . You could pull down a cup , step on the foot treadle , and when the water arced up , catch your drink in the little ...
... colored . Mr. Constantine kept a skinny jar of green olives for her , too . Angular - she liked the word ; her own face could be described as angular . She liked it that she had strong facial bones , that her whole body was strong and ...
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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 |