| "A remarkable first novel. Like the old master Henry James, Sheila Bosworth uses the chilling device of using the mirror of innocence to reflect evil. It is a lovely achievement, a superior one." Walker Percy |
Clay-Lee Calvert is the love child of two people who are as beautiful as models in a magazine but whose similarity ends there. Her father, Rand, is an artist-easygoing, dreamy, principled, and chronically jobless. Her mother, Constance, is the blue-blooded, pampered, delicate but determined daughter of a state supreme court justice. How their intense passion for each other plays out against the sumptuousness and decay of 1950s New Orleans is something to which no innocent should be privy.
In Sheila Bosworth's mesmerizing first novel, the era, the place, the people, of Clay-Lee's childhood all form an air as real as our own pasts, alternately dim and indelible, where everyone bears some guilt, and all are almost innocent.
In Sheila Bosworth's mesmerizing first novel, the era, the place, the people, of Clay-Lee's childhood all form an air as real as our own pasts, alternately dim and indelible, where everyone bears some guilt, and all are almost innocent.
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Hardback Editions
November 1984 : Hardback
| Title: Almost Innocent Author(s): Sheila Bosworth ISBN: 0-671-50365-0 / 978-0-671-50365-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Almost Innocent (Voices of the South) Author(s): Sheila Bosworth ISBN: 0-8071-2066-9 / 978-0-8071-2066-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 1986 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Almost Innocent (Contemporary American Fiction) Author(s): Sheila Bosworth ISBN: 0-14-008443-6 / 978-0-14-008443-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Viking Pr Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1984 : Paperback
| Title: Almost Innocent Author(s): Sheila Bosworth Publisher: Penguin Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
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