Contents
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Promise of the Past: An Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund
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Reading Group Guide: Discussion Points for Four Spirits A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
In Memoriam
Epigraphs
Prelude Old Times there, 1948
Helicon, Alabama
One Unleashing the Dogs, May 1963
Stella
Christine
Edmund
Darl
Bobby Jones
TJ
At the Athens
Gloria at Home
Edmund at Home
Christine Walking
Fielding’s Department Store
Mr. Fielding
At the Bankhead Hotel
On the Vespa
Night Duty
Night Pleasure
Christine at Home
Engaged
Fred Shuttlesworth
Wanting Bach
King
The Telephone, the Microphone
Ryder Jones
Gloria’s Thought Book
Ryder’s Second House
Lee
Martini: Christine and Gloria
At Fielding’s
After Business Hours
At Her Desk
At the Gaslight
Two The Slaughter of the Innocents, September 1963
Gloria
Pimento Dream
At Woolworth’s
Susan Spenser Oaks
Kind of a Growl
Huddled Together
Rubble
The Face of Christ
Someone Small
Homeward
Old Aunt Charlotte
At the Cartwrights’
Four Lambs
Trials
Edmund’s Memoir: I Begin Work and Study
Three O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, November 1963
Box of Moonlight
How the News Came to the Joneses
Stella’s Odyssey
Dear Self
Lionel Parrish: Letter to the Four Families, December 1
Edmund’s Memoir: A Christmas Story in Retrospect
Four The Oven, Summer 1964
New Work, New Life
H.O.P.E.
Driving Home
Stella’s Aunts
Lionel’s Office
In the Oven
Aftermath: Living It Again
Aftermath: “Träumerei”
Aftermath: Arcola at the Dressing Table
Aftermath: Home for the Night
Cahaba
Afternoon Roses
Night Again: Caryatid
Humming in the Heat
Aunt Pratt Alone
Lee Plays Barber
Dappled Light
Fans for August
View from Outside
Four Spirits
Lions Lounging
An Office Call
Picasso’s Bull
Catherine’s Story: A Friend of the Body
Five Seed People, September 1964
Dear Donny
He Doesn’t
In the Basement
Night Riders
Resurrection
What’s the Matter?
Answers
Lionel Watching
Close to Earth
Agnes’s Honeybees
How to Dream
Jonathan, the Pianist
Dear Self
Saturday Morning: Edmund
Saturday Morning: Lee
Saturday: Agnes
Saturday: Lee
Saturday: Lionel
Saturday: Cat
Saturday: Gloria
Joseph Coat-of-Many-Colors
I, Gloria
Stella Listening
Six Spirits in the Snow, January 1965
Jonathan
New Year’s Party, 1965
Stella
Postlude Bringing in the Sheaves
Helicon Homecoming
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
By Sena Jeter Naslund
Copyright
About the Publisher