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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... seemed that the spirit of her father was hovering around Darl and her on this high place . She placed her hand just below Darl's waist ; she shivered as though to say " I only seek closeness for warmth , against the chill . " Her palm ...
... seemed to follow his unarticulated thoughts . " We had a branch in West End . Not so grand . " He glanced out a narrow window set in the curve of the stone tower . He wished he had grown up nearer the center of things . Not that he didn ...
... seemed to be leaping at the sides of its container , as mobile as water in a gigantic bucket . Touching the bone between her breasts , Christine wished as she walked that she could reach in , pluck out the cauldron with its seething ...
... the neck to the hem . That long line of little but- tons somehow seemed brave . With a part down the middle of her head , Stella thought she looked like the brave poet Emily Dickinson . Emily had not always 50 Sena Jeter Naslund.
... seemed to know she was quiet , and he didn't care . What did she see in herself ? Somebody who wanted to change . Some- body who wanted to live more fully . Someone whose scope was larger than the campus , broader than boring , part ...
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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 |