"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 ...
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"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.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.
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Fair. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing (age related spots and browning). May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. N5-A 2nd printing hardcover book SIGNED by Sheila Bosworth on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, crease and few tiny tears on the edges and corners, less than half-inch tear on the back top right corner, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.5", 268 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. This remarkable first novel introduces a young novelist with a sensibility and voice reminiscent of the best Southern writers of the last several decades. Set in New Orleans, the novel offers an extraordinary rendering of a world-that of the Southern gentry-and a place-that mysterious, eccentric and seductive city on the Mississippi delta. Narrated by a young girl, Clay-Lee Calvert, it is the tragic story of her family. Her mother, Constance, was an exquisite, beautifully young woman, one of those Southern women soft and ethereal on the outside but hard as iron inside, who was doomed by her passion for Rand Calvert, aristocratic but artistic and destined never to be able to provide Constance with the life she needed and was born to expect. Creating a cast of colorful characters-from the elegant aunt Lady-Sidonie to the manipulative, rich uncle Baby Brother-Sheila Bosworth brings them to life with her gift for capturing a personality with a word or a gesture. Vibrant, lyrical, and compelling, Almost Innocent represents the debut of a young writer emerging from a great literary tradition.
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Very Good. Very good paperback. Advance uncorrected proof. Text clean. Spine browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.