An Absence So Great
A Novel
1st Edition
Published on 16. March 2010
400 pages
978-0-307-45927-5 (ISBN)
Description
Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart's emptiness?
While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele's personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she's put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as "water under the bridge," she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate photographic studios for those owners who have fallen ill with mercury poisoning.
Jessie gains footing in her dream to one day operate her own studio and soon finds herself in other Midwest towns, pursuing her profession. But even a job she loves can't keep painful memories from seeping into her heart when the shadows of a forbidden love threaten to darken the portrait of her life.
While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele's personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she's put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as "water under the bridge," she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate photographic studios for those owners who have fallen ill with mercury poisoning.
Jessie gains footing in her dream to one day operate her own studio and soon finds herself in other Midwest towns, pursuing her profession. But even a job she loves can't keep painful memories from seeping into her heart when the shadows of a forbidden love threaten to darken the portrait of her life.
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Jane Kirkpatrick is an award-winning, best-selling author of sixteen historical novels, and three nonfiction titles,
including A Flickering Light, the first part of Jessie Gaebele's story and one of Library Journal's Best of 2009. Known for her unique insights into the exploration of community, family, and faith of actual historical women, the Wisconsin native and her husband have called their ranch in Oregon home for the past twenty-five years.
including A Flickering Light, the first part of Jessie Gaebele's story and one of Library Journal's Best of 2009. Known for her unique insights into the exploration of community, family, and faith of actual historical women, the Wisconsin native and her husband have called their ranch in Oregon home for the past twenty-five years.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by this Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Cast of Characters
- Map
- Loneliness
- Part 1 - Setting
- Chapter One - Setting Things Right
- Chapter Two - Out of the Shadows
- Chapter Three - Of Shadow and Light
- Chapter Four - Delegate of Change
- Resignation
- Chapter Five - Surprises
- Chapter Six - Dressing Up Disappointment
- Chapter Seven - Poetry of Feet
- Intuition
- Chapter Eight - Prone to Wander
- Chapter Nine - Adding Light
- Chapter Ten - The Present
- Homesickness
- Part 2 - Props
- Chapter Eleven - Lament
- Chapter Twelve - Reunion
- Chapter Thirteen - Gifts Given and Received
- Relief
- Chapter Fourteen - New Exposures
- Chapter Fifteen - Intrusions
- Desire
- Chapter Sixteen - The Road to Readjustment
- Chapter Seventeen - Truth Telling
- Chapter Eighteen - A Second Exposure
- Chapter Nineteen - Proving Up
- Chapter Twenty - Recipients
- Chapter Twenty-One - A Turning Toward Yes!
- Chapter Twenty-Two - The Absence of Two Chairs
- Chapter Twenty-Three - The Essence of Conscience
- Fragility
- Chapter Twenty-Four - Self-Deception
- Chapter Twenty-Five - The Absence of Heat and Haste
- Part 3 - Final Pose
- Chapter Twenty-Six - Separations
- Chapter Twenty-Seven - Out of Control into Safety
- Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Nature of News
- Chapter Twenty-Nine - Where the Bluffs Speak
- Hope
- Chapter Thirty - Worthy of the Wait
- Chapter Thirty-One - Abide
- Chapter Thirty-Two - Erasing the Ache of Absence
- Contentment
- Author's Notes and Acknowledgments
- An Interview with the Author
- Readers Guide
- Copyright
