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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... side , exposes a square hole leading to the 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 ...
... side to side . " I didn't think so , " Charlotte says . Mrs. Doctor would never shoot the pistol , and the world was the same as always . Charlotte closes her eyes , exhausted by her foray back into the realm of the living who could ...
... side of his cheek , the binoculars trained on the city . His hair was a rich brown , and his freckles almost matched his hair . She wanted to brush the field glasses aside , to stand in front of him , for his eyes to look into hers and ...
... side . Rising to her knees , Christine watched the running children and heard their high - pitched yelps . Like little dogs yelping . The torrential water splashed just at their heels , then traveled to their ankles and up the backs of ...
... under the white sheet to Edmund , and then Reverend Shuttlesworth closed his eyes . " Jesus , take this youngun . Be at Edmund's side as you ever have by mine . When the house fall , lead him out . When the bomb burst , be Edmund.
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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 |