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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... trees , " her father tells her because she is five years old . She must shoot the trees , but it doesn't make sense , because her father is the one who says he will die , and soon . Maybe death is hiding in the trees , the little girl ...
... trees ! " Because Stella is hesitating in pulling the trigger , his voice comes booming now from the bedrock bottom ... tree trunks in the woods before her ; perhaps the bullet takes no toll but slips harm- lessly like a snake between ...
... trees , except Mama who says , " Oh , I don't want to do that , " and dismisses the whole issue . It seems to Stella that Mama has no use for guns . But during the parade , Stella had heard her murmur , " Blessed guns , blessed boys ...
... tree , Stella decides , then the sawing across the fibers and the piercing by nails don't hurt . It's Time that transforms boards into cloth . When Daddy approaches the tall mantel clock , he holds a brass key : one end of the long key ...
... trees . The boys in gray have been hiding there , and now , transparent , they march forever through the woods ; facing them , other soldiers emerge from trees on other hillsides , march to close , to aim , and finally , always , to ...
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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 |