Four Spirits: A NovelHarper Collins, 17. mars 2009 - 560 sider 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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... Shuttlesworth 70 Wanting Bach 72 King 77 The Telephone , the Microphone 81 Ryder Jones 85 Gloria's Thought Book 88 Ryder's Second House 91 Lee 96 Martini : Christine and Gloria 100 At Fielding's 103 After Business Hours At Her Desk 109 ...
... Shuttlesworth reciting loudly , " I will fear no evil . " Water rocketed against his ribs , spun him once , twice , and he was down , his hands pressed against his side . Rising to her knees , Christine watched the running children and ...
... to know . Edmund stepped forward from the wall and ran to kneel beside Reverend Shuttlesworth . The boy surely wasn't more than seven . If not my generation , yours , she thought . EDMUND " WHY DON'T THEY COME TO VISIT ME , FOUR SPIRITS 21.
... Shuttlesworth asked the boy . " You come . " Nobody could smile like Edmund's minister - all teeth , all sunshine . Smil- ing now , smiling up from his hospital bed . Same as the pulpit smile , but Rev- erend Shuttlesworth was lying in ...
... Shuttlesworth's demands of the early demonstrations : we want , we need , we demand some black police . King said Birmingham was the most segregated city in the South . Only city over 50,000 with no black men on the police force ...
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At the Athens | 35 |
Fieldings Department Store | 49 |
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 |