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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... didn't . Stella glanced up the massive , shining body of Vulcan , past his classical and bare heinie , up his lifted arm to his unilluminated torch . At a distance , she had often observed that the nighttime neon " flame " made the ...
... didn't tell them her new secret : I went to a beer joint . I , the silent sophomore , have a new friend , a senior . You can't guess what I might do next . Two weeks ago , I went with Christine to Mr. Parrish's office . I'm teaching in ...
... didn't see him as she saw him , didn't see the deep sorrow . She knew Shuttlesworth was the Survivor . It was Shuttlesworth in 1956 who had risen up from the bombing of his own house . The bomb had been tossed up under the house on ...
... didn't smile . She shook her head no , folded her lips tight in on themselves . Don't you beg from me . Another one reached out and took her arm ; he talked with his cigarette waggling in his lips . " Didn't you hear the man ? " " Get ...
... Didn't matter what all had happened to her . Didn't matter what mistakes she'd made . Now on , she loved herself . Loved her own independence . Loved the future . ALL FIELDING'S DEPARTMENT STORE EVENING AS STELLA ANSWERED THE DEPARTMENT ...
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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 |