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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... took his time descending the metal steps in the dim light . He needed . to decide if he should arrange to see Stella again in the evening . " Did your folks take you to the library when you were little ? " Stella asked , her voice ...
... took her hand , and they walked forward . " I need to go on to Fielding's , " she said , referring to her evening work on the switchboard at one of Birmingham's large department stores . He turned to face her . " I'll pick you up after ...
... Took two firemen to hold the brass nozzle between them . In a flash of sunlit water , a little girl in her Sunday best - pale blue - was drenched and smacked onto the pavement . TJ saw the riffraff man next to him change his grip on the ...
... took her arm ; he talked with his cigarette waggling in his lips . " Didn't you hear the man ? " " Get your hand off me . " They all shifted around her . She kept walking . They walked with her . She speeded up , and they snickered ...
... took the best curves down Red Mountain . Then she envisioned the brown freckles thrown like a net over all his classic handsome face . From her perch on the mezzanine , she saw a boy she had known in high school . He had had a tiny hand ...
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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 |