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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... door . " She had stopped , stood as though suspended in the dim tower , one hand on the metal handrail . " You entered the door from the outside world , pushed , then emerged in another world . A quiet , interior world . " She seemed ...
... door opening on a police wagon and a German shep- herd dog stepped out - Lord , God ! -on a chain , then the dark blue leg and the whole of a policeman . And another pair - dog and man , linked by a leash . And another dog and man ...
... door , step into the kitchen light , and they'd all be there , safe . Her woozy sister with one straightened lock of hair sticking up from her head , the hair clamped at the bottom with a brown barrette . Christine hurried on down the ...
... door of the department store ( " Good evening , Fielding's " ) , he would be there , strad- dling the seat of the Vespa , one foot out on the pavement for balance . Between telephone ringings ( " Good evening , Fielding's " ) , she ...
... door behind him . Inside his office , he hiked up a leg of his expensive navy blue trousers . He placed one hand on his desk to steady himself and knelt . Fielding was pushing sixty , but he had no trouble kneeling . He'd kept 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 |