Four Spirits: A Novel

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Harper Collins, 17. 3. 2009 - 560 strán (strany)

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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Helicon Alabama
3
Stella
15
Bobby Jones
27
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
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Sena Jeter Naslund is a cofounder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Ahab's Wife, a finalist for the Orange Prize. She recently retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville.

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