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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... them important only to themselves and each other .... [ Naslund ] has blown a deep breath of life into Four Spirits , and I would not want it to billow one word less . " -Detroit Free Press " Told in beautifully crafted prose , this is a.
... told his two sons and daughter as they drove south , back toward his old home - he'd never lost touch - where he had picked cotton alongside the colored folks . And then while he drove the car toward Helicon , he sang his children his ...
... told her . Let Birmingham solve ... Don't you ? But Stella hadn't answered . Instead , she'd said , I'd like to see . I'm afraid to go close . We can go up on Vulcan , Darl had offered , for he was a man who wanted to accommodate women ...
... told him his coming to Birmingham was untimely , unwise . King was an outsider ; he ought to let Birmingham folks work out Birmingham problems , in the name of Our Lord and Savior , so said eight white ministers in the spring of 1963 ...
... told you about Christ ? Emily had believed in God , if not Jesus . Of course , if she wore a black - and - brown - checked dress such as Stella's , it would have come to the floor . Had a hoop under it and been the prettier for it ...
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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 |