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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... hair on our heads and us limber jointed ( with blood inside ! ) , us in the gun's sights and we are the target when the bullet races down the barrel ? Because of death , Daddy reminds , " Aim at the trees ! " Because Stella is ...
... hair was cotton - boll white on his dark head , not her gaunt - cheeked daughter Queen Victoria Jones , whose head was crowned not by precious metal studded with gems but by a faded ban- danna . Though ancient , Christopher Columbus ...
... hair . The boys have been neglected , and she , the girl , has been selected . Blessed girl ! and the world is illumined as never before , as though sheet lightning has shimmered the dead air . In exchange for her special blessing , her ...
... hair was a rich brown , and his freckles almost matched his hair . She wanted to brush the field glasses aside , to stand in front of him , for his eyes to look into hers and see in her more than a city's worth of complex feel- ing ...
... hair . He watched his parents squint their eyes in the sunshine and smile at each other . Bobby put his hands on his hips , grinned , triumphant . He felt as though he were holding a Brownie camera and taking their picture . " We need a ...
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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 |