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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... thought of the force of the powerful fire hoses turned on the Negroes peacefully congregating and marching for equality . She thought of the police dogs , standing on their hind legs , mouths open , snarling and barking . In Birmingham ...
... thought This is the heart of it and then he thought of a real heart , how it pulsed and surged . How many days can it go on ? He wasn't a part of it . But today he would take its pulse . When he was a boy , Kelly Ingram Park had no ...
... thought he wanted to see Asia . What TJ saw from the high church steps was a park full of children , faces shining , small , sharp voices twittering like a vast flock of starlings . And here came another covey , streaming down the steps ...
... thought , It looks tough in the park today . I've seen worse . Moving down the church steps , he began weaving himself into the riffraff bystanders , trained in nothing . He bargained with himself - well , okay , he'd stand in with the ...
... thought the demonstrations wouldn't start till three . ) Police weren't ready at one o'clock . Now the bystanders were laughing at the police and ridiculing them . Five girls in a line played " Strut Miss Lizzie " in front of them ...
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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 |