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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... tried , " Charlotte says . She sees a moth up there above her bed , but its wings are caught in a cobweb . " Tried many a time . " Then her father reaches out his hand to the woman on the bed whose body doesn't even reach halfway to the ...
... trying , with words , to soothe the hidden unrest and violence of his city . It was one of the things she loved about Darl , his sincere belief . Her own belief was in chaos . Down below , the confrontation was hidden completely from ...
... his trousers . Christine could see Charles screaming into the surface of the street , trying to get a fingerhold in the large cracks in the pavement . His lips inched over the asphalt while a policeman ran toward Christine.
... tried to 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 ...
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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 |