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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... Home for the Night 278 Cahaba 280 Afternoon Roses 286 Night Again : Caryatid 289 Humming in the Heat 292 Aunt Pratt Alone 296 Lee Plays Barber 299 Dappled Light 303 Fans for August View from Outside Four Spirits 306 310 CONTENTS xiii.
... plays the cello , and in Chicago her mother learned to play the violin and the piano . Stella could ride her pint - size cello , like a horsey , all the way to Chicago . Back to Chicago , she thinks , though she has never been there ...
... played the piano - or even just played her own music - Chopin and Mozart . Instead , lightning jitters before their wide eyes , and the terrifying wind bends the trees beside the road . Like a long finger , the cyclone reaches down to ...
... played Bach's " O Sacred Head , Now Wounded , " creating his own improvisations , Stella felt understood . It was she who had been wounded , and the music was what she missed and needed . The way Darl played promised wholeness ...
... playing in the sand- box . It was just an old truck tire that held sand . Bobby had seen cats nasty in it , and he didn't want to have anything to do with the sandbox . His mom was pinning a sheet on the clothesline . It was the kind of ...
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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 |