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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... steps forward . Curious , she wants to examine Old Aunt Charlotte more closely . This woman could be the one who will die , not Daddy . " I'm Stella . Did we wake you up with the shooting ? " From the small carved wooden woman comes a ...
... steps back and gives her bedside place to her brothers . No words at all are uttered over the boys , when the brown fingers slowly muss their hair . The boys have been neglected , and she , the girl , has been selected . Blessed girl ...
... step out of the trunks of trees . The boys in gray have been hiding there , and now , transparent , they march forever through the woods ; facing them , other soldiers emerge from trees on other hillsides , march to close , to aim , and ...
... steps inside Vulcan's pedestal , Darl apologized to Stella . " I'm sorry we couldn't see anything . " " The trees blocked the view , " she answered . She was descending the stairs behind him . This way Darl could catch her if she ...
... steps in the dim light . He needed . to decide if he should arrange to see Stella again in the evening . " Did your folks take you to the library when you were little ? " Stella asked , her voice floating down over his shoulder ...
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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 |