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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... imagined the giggle as though it had heft and was falling rapidly down from the pedestal , down the mountain , into the valley . " I don't have the foggiest idea , " she said . " About thirty inches . " " What a waste ! " she said ...
... imagined somebody with a tape measure , holding it , impossibly , from a flying robin down to the ground . She loved the idea - so unexpected , silly but fascinating , to juxtapose a flying robin and a floppy yellow tape measure . What ...
... imagined the water of the creek to be a bright blue with a fish hopping out of it , smiling , like in Shirley's color- ing book . Village Creek was the only body of water he'd ever heard of . " Tell you what , " his father said . " We ...
... imagined her little - girl head peeping out through the rectangular slot , eyes just above the level of the pavement , triumphant . How , after she climbed out , she had held out her hand to receive the nickel into her palm . In the ...
... imagined the bay full of sail- boats . Of the sea - fight tomorrow . How would it turn out , their struggle for free- dom ? Like Susan B. Anthony had said long ago about women's rights , " Defeat is impossible . " Christine pictured the ...
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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 |