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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... holds the heavy , grown - up gun in her hand ; she must lift the barrel to aim , and that tiny blade , like a fragment of razor blade on the end of the barrel , is called the sight . But will she become a soldier , if she fires a gun ...
... hold it up at each corner . Perhaps she could pick up the little house , with them inside , and carry it to ... holds a brass key : one end of the long key is crenellated like a bit of castle wall , the other end is two stiff lobes ...
... - 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.
... hold back his tears . He had imagined the water of the creek to be a bright blue with a fish hopping out of it , smiling , like in Shirley's color- ing book . Village Creek was the only body of water he'd ever heard of . " Tell you what ...
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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 |