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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... finger . Just her finger should ever so slightly pull the trigger toward her , toward them , but what if if if if if if if if the pistol has its own will and the barrel looks up above the green woods , up toward the sky that has turned ...
... fingers touch the black keys as readily as the white ones , but Stella plays the piano only in the key of C and Stella uses only the level white notes . Touching the corner of the old house , Stella's fingertips learn that this house is ...
... fingers . Those words shock Stella , zing from her ears down the neck bones , through her body to her smallest toe bone . Blessed , blessed . Stella knows that she has been waiting to hear those words . What did it matter that they were ...
... finger , the cyclone reaches down to tip the car and make it roll over and over , down the bank , till all those inside are broken and blood is everywhere before the car comes to rest . After the storm passes and the highway patrolman ...
... fingers fit- ted the spaces between her curving ribs . They were alone up in the air ; they weren't some trashy couple smooching in public . Yes , this was what she had been wanting . Perhaps for years . Someone's arm around her ...
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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 |