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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... hair , they became the Queen of Spades and the Queen of Clubs , the Queen of Diamonds and the Queen of Hearts . The older sisters were the black queens and the two younger ones were the red queens . Emerald , topaz , ruby , and ...
... hair sticking up from her head , the hair clamped at the bottom with a brown barrette . Christine hurried on down the sidewalk ; like heaps of dirty rags , last fall's leaves still lay on the ground in places . One yard had iris blooms ...
... hair had been dark and pulled smoothly back . Stella's blond hair ended in a flip just above her shoulders . Both Emily's religious skepticism and her courage amazed Stella . Though the other girls in Emily's boarding school professed ...
... hair circled his head like frosting on the sides of a cake . His own daugh- ter - who loved him - had described him that way . " Pretty quiet , tonight , isn't it , Miss Silver ? " he asked . He said it with grim regret . The protests ...
... hair looked wild , like another set of wings still held open from the force of the long journey through space . The chin was set at a defiant tilt . " He blames God , " Darl said . " He says , ' Why must we be so small ? ' " " Who ...
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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 |