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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... windows , feel the fear of being chased by racists and know the satisfaction of triumphs of the human spirit . " -Fort Worth Star - Telegram " Naslund manages to make a wide array of complex characters evolve in an action - packed novel ...
... Daddy's clock contains time , but Mama's music always floats free . Wisps of her mother's music , like clouds , often float through Stella's mind and the air around her . One glass window , swung open like a gate by FOUR SPIRITS 7.
... window screen bars the entrance to flying insects or the meandering of air . In the backyard in Birmingham , Stella has a playhouse with just such a window attached only to its frame by hinges on one side . Inside the playhouse , Stella ...
... window shade , then raise up . " Let me touch them the next gen - er - a - ti - on . " The doctor's children are nudged closer by both their parents into the reality of family - but - not - family that Dr. Silver not only thinks to be ...
... window set in the curve of the stone tower . He wished he had grown up nearer the center of things . Not that he didn't love his own blue - collar people . He did , and fiercely . " When I was ten , " Stella said , " my aunt allowed me ...
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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 |