Almost innocent
By: by Sheila Bosworth.
Series: Voices of the South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Description: 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.