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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... stopped at the little hut - house at Helicon , but Daddy had said , " Let her sleep . We'll go fire the pistol . " But Stella and her brothers peeked and saw her sleeping - Old Aunt Charlotte , the one Who - Was - Born - into - Slavery ...
... stopped , stood as though suspended in the dim tower , one hand on the metal handrail . " You entered the door from the outside world , pushed , then emerged in another world . A quiet , interior world . " She seemed imprisoned in her ...
... stopped , sur- rounded her . She clasped her purse hard against her side . Her bruised side . She didn't know these boys . Not from her neighborhood . She was safe long as strangers stayed out . From nowhere , she heard loud humming ...
... STOPPED AND POINTED TOWARD A crowd of tombstones . Following the direction of his pale finger , Stella's gaze darted through a thicket of tall pointing columns , little Washington monuments , to the figure of an angel with flamboyant ...
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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 |