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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... heard her murmur , " Blessed guns , blessed boys . " Stella had gotten bored ; there were so many soldiers , all dressed in brown ; one block after another , then a few tanks , more blocks of soldiers , all their legs waving forward ...
... " Once Charlotte had stood outside the Methodist church whose Sunday school and service were faithfully attended by the Silver family , and Charlotte heard the church organ swell up like the blooming of 10 Sena Jeter Naslund.
A Novel Sena Jeter Naslund. heard the church organ swell up like the blooming of a gigantic flower , and that was what the white folks sang . " Fair are the mead - ows , Fair - er still the woodlands .... Je - sus . is fair - er , Je ...
... heard their high - pitched yelps . Like little dogs yelping . The torrential water splashed just at their heels , then traveled to their ankles and up the backs of their legs . The power of the fire hose pushed a little girl forward ...
... heard about Village Creek . He'd never seen it . He'd heard a white boy went over the Village Creek Falls in a barrel and it made him a half - wit . He asked his father about it . " Them falls ain't but two feet high , " Bobby Jones.
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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 |