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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... young and old , brave and cowardly , fictional and historical - the central character of the novel , in many respects , is Birmingham itself . " -Birmingham Weekly " Naslund consistently displays a fine feel for the nearly inaudible ...
... young pine , entering the bark lovingly like a ghost leaving not so much as a kiss - mark of lipstick on the flinty brown scales encircling a trunk just the size of your wrist . What happens to a bullet fired ? And how could the ...
... young to have been slaves . It is their mother , Old Aunt Char- lotte , who survived both before and after the time when the world con- vulsed in civil war to set her free . And Daddy wants his three children to know her . " It's ...
... young woman , not an ancient , were presenting a ghost baby , as though in her upturned palms the young woman could feel the weight of him who would become Doctor and Daddy . Those pale palms ( Stella imagines ) have caught the light ...
... young Charlotte had wondered , fair - er than the li - ly ? And Charlotte had pic- tured not a lily , or Jesus , but a giant magnolia blossom , purest of whites with its overpow- ering fragrance , growing up from the boards of the ...
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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 |