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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... girl thinks , and what if she kills death ? Then it can't get her father . Aim at the trees , yes , he surely said to do that , and she would do anything for him , and never be disobedient again . Since her parents and two brothers are ...
... girl , Stella , hear the 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 ...
... - not - family that Dr. Silver not only thinks to be right but holds as being sacred . The hands of Who - Was - Born - into - Slavery rest on Stella's head . " Blessed girl ! " Old Aunt Charlotte squeaks in FOUR SPIRITS.
... girl , has been selected . Blessed girl ! and the world is illumined as never before , as though sheet lightning has shimmered the dead air . In exchange for her special blessing , her scalp still tingling , though she is ignored in the ...
... girl forward , drenched the back of her yellow organdy dress . The girl in sodden yellow lifted her hands and spread her fingers to push the children in front of her . All the children were soaked . The water cannon was moving the ...
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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 |