Last Autum

Product Description A timeless love story of two people - once married, then separated by years, events, and careers - who meet on a wild, cruel, isolated section of the Northwest Coast. He's an alcoholic has-been writer, she a successful commercial artist. Both have forsaken their dreams, but neither is over the other. They come together for the last time to resolve the love that has jinxed their lives. Last Autumn is a moving, poignant novel, alive with poetry, insight and compassion. Review A well constructed tale with lifelike characters...another well told tale by Jeff Conine. -- Anne K. Edwards Book Reviews Weekly

An impressive and auspicious novel by a writer enjoying his craft. -- Irish novelist Niall Quinn, author of Welcome to Gomorrah and Cafe Cong.

strong, no-holds barred portrait of a writer on the skids, seeking his own kind of truth...the writer's dilemma, -- Mitch Waldman Scibe's World Reviews

well written...excellent command of language...stark, devoid of sentiment...isolated coast a major character. I stayed until the end. -- Judy Fleagle, Senior Editor, Oregon Coast Magazine About the Author Jeff Conine was born and raised in San Francisco. In the middle Sixties he attended the University of San Diego, where he received B.A. degrees in English and Psychology in 1970. He led an aimless existence for a number of years garnering writing material in a variety of locales until he was accepted at the writing program at Eastern Washington University. There, he received his M.F.A, in fiction writing in 1985. He went on to receive his Doctorate in English Language studies at Idaho State University where he was an English Fellow and later taught creative writing. Doctor Conine makes his home on the Oregon Coast at the estuary of the Siuslaw River and the Pacific. Presently he is a fiction editor for a multi-media concern, teaches, and freelance writes and edits. He has authored three novels, two published in Dublin, Ireland, an unsold screenplay and various academic critical studies.