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Four spirits : a novel / Sena Jeter Naslund.
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- ISBN: 0066212383 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 006093669X (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xv, 524 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Morrow, c2003.
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Four Spirits
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prelude: Old Times There, 1948 | ||
| Helicon, Alabama | p. 3 | |
| 1 | Unleashing the Dogs, May 1963 | |
| Stella | p. 15 | |
| Christine | p. 19 | |
| Edmund | p. 22 | |
| Darl | p. 24 | |
| Bobby Jones | p. 27 | |
| TJ | p. 29 | |
| At the Athens | p. 35 | |
| Gloria at Home | p. 38 | |
| Edmund at Home | p. 40 | |
| Christine Walking | p. 41 | |
| Fielding's Department Store | p. 49 | |
| Mr. Fielding | p. 52 | |
| At the Bankhead Hotel | p. 54 | |
| On the Vespa | p. 55 | |
| Night Duty | p. 57 | |
| Night Pleasure | p. 59 | |
| Christine at Home | p. 63 | |
| Engaged | p. 65 | |
| Fred Shuttlesworth | p. 70 | |
| Wanting Bach | p. 72 | |
| King | p. 77 | |
| The Telephone, the Microphone | p. 81 | |
| Ryder Jones | p. 85 | |
| Gloria's Thought Book | p. 88 | |
| Ryder's Second House | p. 91 | |
| Lee | p. 96 | |
| Martini: Christine and Gloria | p. 100 | |
| At Fielding's | p. 103 | |
| After Business Hours | p. 106 | |
| At Her Desk | p. 109 | |
| At the Gaslight | p. 112 | |
| 2 | The Slaughter of the Innocents, September 1963 | |
| Gloria | p. 129 | |
| Pimento Dream | p. 133 | |
| At Woolworth's | p. 139 | |
| Susan Spenser Oaks | p. 141 | |
| Kind of a Growl | p. 144 | |
| Huddled Together | p. 145 | |
| Rubble | p. 149 | |
| The Face of Christ | p. 152 | |
| Someone Small | p. 155 | |
| Homeward | p. 156 | |
| Old Aunt Charlotte | p. 158 | |
| At the Cartwrights' | p. 163 | |
| Four Lambs | p. 167 | |
| Trials | p. 170 | |
| Edmund's Memori: I Begin Work and Study | p. 172 | |
| 3 | O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, November 1963 | |
| Box of Moonlight | p. 181 | |
| How the News Came to the Joneses | p. 184 | |
| Stella's Odyssey | p. 189 | |
| Dear Self | p. 235 | |
| Lionel Parrish: Letter to the Four Families, December 1 | p. 239 | |
| Edmund's Memoir: A Christmas Story in Retrospect | p. 240 | |
| 4 | The Oven, Summer 1964 | |
| New Work, New Life | p. 247 | |
| H.O.P.E. | p. 251 | |
| Driving Home | p. 255 | |
| Stella's Aunts | p. 258 | |
| Lionel's Office | p. 264 | |
| In the Oven | p. 268 | |
| Aftermath: Living It Again | p. 274 | |
| Aftermath: "Traumerei" | p. 275 | |
| Aftermath: Arcola at the Dressing Table | p. 277 | |
| Aftermath: Home for the Night | p. 278 | |
| Cahaba | p. 280 | |
| Afternoon Roses | p. 286 | |
| Night Again: Caryatid | p. 289 | |
| Humming in the Heat | p. 292 | |
| Aunt Pratt Alone | p. 296 | |
| Lee Plays Barber | p. 299 | |
| Dappled Light | p. 303 | |
| Fans for August | p. 306 | |
| View from Outside | p. 310 | |
| Four Spirits | p. 314 | |
| Lions Lounging | p. 317 | |
| An Office Call | p. 322 | |
| Picasso's Bull | p. 327 | |
| Catherine's Story: A Friend of the Body | p. 334 | |
| 5 | Seed People, September 1964 | |
| Dear Donny | p. 353 | |
| He Doesn't | p. 356 | |
| In the Basement | p. 361 | |
| Night Riders | p. 366 | |
| Resurrection | p. 373 | |
| What's the Matter? | p. 377 | |
| Answers | p. 384 | |
| Lionel Watching | p. 395 | |
| Close to Earth | p. 399 | |
| Agnes's Honeybees | p. 403 | |
| How to Dream | p. 406 | |
| Jonathan, the Pianist | p. 409 | |
| Dear Self | p. 419 | |
| Saturday Morning: Edmund | p. 423 | |
| Saturday Morning: Lee | p. 429 | |
| Saturday: Agnes | p. 434 | |
| Saturday: Lee | p. 443 | |
| Saturday: Lionel | p. 452 | |
| Saturday: Cat | p. 455 | |
| Saturday: Gloria | p. 460 | |
| Joseph Coat-of-Many-Colors | p. 467 | |
| I, Gloria | p. 473 | |
| Stella Listening | p. 476 | |
| 6 | Spirits in the Snow, January 1965 | |
| Jonathan | p. 487 | |
| New Year's Party, 1965 | p. 490 | |
| Stella | p. 502 | |
| Postlude: Bringing in the Sheaves | ||
| Helicon Homecoming | p. 515 | |
| Author's Note | p. 521 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 523 |
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