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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... remembered to hook the eye to lock the win- dow to secure the playhouse . Do people eat mud pies here in Helicon ? Once , when Nancy wasn't looking , Stella tasted a crumb of Birmingham mud . Now her brothers and parents have caught up ...
... remembered the weight of the bazooka on his shoulder as he aimed at other almost brown faces . He saw the Birmingham police lower their clear visors over their white faces . He thought he recognized some of the policemen and firemen in ...
... remembered the reassuring twill of Darl's trousers , the curve of his buttock , and at their feet , the city down in the valley . Stella wandered to the three - sided mirror and admired her dress , a smooth cotton broadcloth composed of ...
... remembered the terrible wind buffeting the car on the way home from Helicon when the cyclone struck . She tried to stare over Darl's shoulder into the dis- tance , but at the sides of her eyes the gray pavement slid by like an endless ...
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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 |