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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... the green woods , up toward the sky that has turned pale , hardly blue at all anymore , and if the pistol continues to rear up like a stallion but instead of the must - be return of hoofs to the earth , what if the Helicon, Alabama.
... 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 , there was no romance between Vulcan and Lady ...
... turned toward the fire hose , Christine brought up her forearms quickly to shield her breasts , was spun to face first the white mob , then the knot of firemen in red slickers . When the water blast crossed her upper chest , despite her ...
... wet white shirt ( Dressed up for nonvio- lence , poor boy ) plastered against dark skin . When the blast moved on , the boy against the wall turned to face the firemen . He raised an elbow to protect his face , if 20 Sena Jeter Naslund.
... turned ten . Aunt Krit said double digits meant I could take the 15 Norwood to town , on my own . " He paused and turned to look up at her . " They had been gone five years . " Her upturned face looked peaked and scared . " I'm sorry ...
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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 |