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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... : Home for the Night 278 Cahaba 280 Afternoon Roses 286 Night Again : Caryatid 289 Humming in the Heat 292 Aunt Pratt Alone 296 Lee Plays Barber 299 Dappled Light 303 Fans for August View from Outside Four Spirits 306 310 CONTENTS xiii.
... light , and the light replaces the ghost baby in the palms of the old slave's hands . " This your wife ? Lord , so pretty and stout . These children ! Lord , let me touch these babies . " Say your names . Having already instructed the ...
... light . He needed . to decide if he should arrange to see Stella again in the evening . " Did your folks take you to the library when you were little ? " Stella asked , her voice floating down over his shoulder . Sometimes she seemed to ...
... light and salty as a kernel of the popped corn she piled into big blue bowls . They wouldn't let her be shy . But she didn't tell them her new secret : I went to a beer joint . I , the silent sophomore , have a new friend , a senior ...
... light , the moisture hung in the air like dust motes in a shaft of sunlight . The boys with their smooth brown faces , sixteen , nineteen years old , their flask , the burning cigarettes - all appeared fuzzy . Their noses emanated twin ...
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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 |