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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... voice comes booming now from the bedrock bottom beneath the sand beneath the sea : command : " Fire ! " Her father's voice roars like a cannon . Stella remembers the cannon roar and recoil not from the parade but from the movies of ...
... voice while they were in the car . Mama's voice meant you have got to understand , or act as if you understand , and obey . Stella , of course , has always understood that Helicon was the place where the true South was . To her country ...
... voice that sounded like crying . And Stella and her brothers had lifted and squared their shoulders . Just like a flatiron , Mama's hand had pressed right up Stella's spine to straighten it . Now while the pistol bullets wander forever ...
... voice born into slavery quavering like the rattle of oak leaves refusing to let go even in winter , the voice rattling inchoate till Old Aunt Charlotte's eyes focus on Dr. Silver- come - home , and Charlotte forces the throe of nature ...
... voice of a mouse ? She feels like Samuel in the Bible , as though she should say , " Here am I ; send me . " But she steps back and gives her bedside place to her brothers . No words at all are uttered over the boys , when the brown ...
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27 | |
35 | |
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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 |