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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-4 de 4
... 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.
... rose to his feet . He was tall and lanky , had the broad shoulders and sinewy arms of a man . He moved slowly and cautiously . You're not beat . You're not beat , Christine thought as loudly as she could . With her cheek lying against ...
... rose like a plate of fudge , scored crisscross , in a diamond pattern . Her four aunts , their colorful pants tight as tree bark , grew four stories tall , uprooted themselves , stalked the earth , and Gloria leapt high on her cello ...
... rose solemnly from the graves toward the faint moon- light and fainter starlight . Behind them , the holly hedge held the ordinary world at bay . As Darl and Stella walked deeper into the cemetery , the darkness increased . To Stella ...
Contenido
3 | |
15 | |
27 | |
35 | |
49 | |
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 |