thefinalchase.com
"Jeff LeJeune isn't afraid to take on the
hard scene, the big issue, or the flawed, unknowable character."
"I keep with me Noel’s letter. I read it every day, every hour. I’ve memorized it but I still look at the words, ink from a pen she has touched."
Carrie Runnals interviews Jeff LeJeune
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PITTSBURGH, PA – July 9, 2008 – What do you get when you cross an emotionally distressed Catholic priest, a jilted lover, and striking images of the supernatural? The answer: Jeff LeJeune’s latest novel, Postmarked Baltimore. In his second novel, Mr. LeJeune, a resident of Lake Charles, LA, takes the reader on an emotional journey through the eyes of Father Perry Burns, a Catholic priest whose story begins when he receives a letter from his ex-lover on New Years Eve.
Read the full press release here.
June 14
Coffee Beanery
Lake Charles, LA
10-1 PM
June 21
Coffee Beanery
Lake Charles, LA
8-11 AM
August 1
WoodsEdge Community Church
"Benefit for Single Mom's Ministry"
Woodlands, TX. 6:30-9 PM
August 8
Features Radio Show with Tilly Rivers
Toronto, Canada/New York, NY
10 PM
September 6
Books-A-Million
"Cal Ripken Jr. Special"
Lake Charles, LA
1-3 PM
October
Walk-On's
Baton Rouge, LA
Date and time TBD
November 1-2
Poor Pony Fest
Central School
Lake Charles, LA
Times TBD
December 19 & 22
Waldenbooks
Prien Lake Mall
Lake Charles, LA
1-4 PM
On New Year’s Eve, 1989, Father Perry Burns is sitting in his study, accompanied by a myster-ious stranger. Perry has just received a letter from his former sweetheart, whom he jilted years earlier after making a terrible decision. He joined the priesthood to hide from his emo-tions, but now he finds himself recalling, almost reliving, his checkered past. Will the mysterious stranger win the fight for Father Burns’ soul, or will the struggling priest denounce his false life and return to Baltimore to answer to the woman he has always loved?
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PRAISE FOR POSTMARKED "In his second novel LeJeune demonstrates entertainingly that love, the singular message of all religions, eventually overpowers not only evil, but guilt, religion’s unnecessary enforcer. Postmarked Baltimore is a masterful treatment of redemption for which any philosophical writer would love to take credit."
"Postmarked Baltimore is intense, ambitious and morally complex, and it's so vividly imagined that some moments left me breathless. Jeff LeJeune isn't afraid to take on the hard scene, the big issue or the flawed, unknowable character. This is writing with heart and conscience from a first-rate storyteller determined to make his mark."
- John Ed Bradley, author of Tupelo Nights and It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium
"In the tradition of LeJeune's first novel The Final Chase, Postmarked Baltimore is a book of mystery and of wisdom. The winding life of Perry Burns, full of blessings and sins, gives LeJeune an opportunity to delve into the duality of every human heart, the angels and demons that inhabit us all, the Cain and Abel of our conscience. This is a novel about the paths we choose, the paths that choose us, and the rich reward of finally getting it right."
- Neil Connelly, author and head of the fiction department at McNeese State University
-Rick Norman, Fielder's Choice Trilogy
