Almost Innocent (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Bosworth, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140084436 ISBN 13: 9780140084436

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

A young Southern girl, Clay Lee Calvert, narrates the tragic story of her beautiful, doomed mother and aristocratic, artistic father, as set within the eccentric and seductive world of the New Orleans gentry

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Sheila Bosworth's second novel, Slow Poison, was published in 1992. Born, raised, and educated in New Orleans, she now lives in Covington, Louisiana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140084436
• ISBN 13: 9780140084436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272