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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... standing behind , Stella sees nothing but trees , their slender pine bodies upright and endless as the sol- diers marching down Twentieth Street in the Birmingham Armistice Day parade . In the piney forest , Stella holds the heavy ...
... standing now among the little sharp - edged stones , existing really not just in his but also in their memories . When she looks at these people , the Negroes of rural south Alabama , this world , she sees it through the lens of memory ...
... of the police dogs , standing on their hind legs , mouths open , snarling and barking . In Birmingham , there was no romance between Vulcan and Lady Liberty . CHRISTINE IN EARLY MAY 1963 , THE BLAST FROM THE 18 Sena Jeter Naslund.
... standing still , slumped , watching . She ought to speak to him . Encourage him . There was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth reciting loudly , " I will fear no evil . " Water rocketed against his ribs , spun him once , twice , and he was ...
... standing , not weaving left and right before his people , his narrow tie leaping like a dancing snake . " Who ? " the boy asked . " King , " his minister answered . " King and Abernathy . You here . Where they ? " The boy shrugged . He ...
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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 |