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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... 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 hesitating in pulling the trigger , his voice comes booming ...
... inside , and carry it to Birmingham . But Stella does not want to stop at Birmingham where , they say , in a few months , after she starts first grade , Daddy will die ; she thinks I will go to Chicago . Already she plays the cello ...
... inside of the Helicon house . No window screen bars the entrance to flying insects or the meandering of air . In the backyard in Birmingham , Stella has a playhouse with just such a window attached only to its frame by hinges on one ...
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... inside a car not so much like an egg as like a nest equipped with seats - runs into bad weather . Wind and rain lash the car , and Stella's mother sings " La Cucaracha " and " Frère Jacques " to keep their spirits up , but Stella wishes ...
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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 |