The Further Adventures of Daisy Miller - Paperback
Daisy Miller Lives! One of the most alluring and enigmatic of Henry James’s Americans Abroad, Daisy survives the “Roman fever” in Lawrence Kessenich’s playful and insightful sequel to the famous James novella, and – finally! – gets a chance to explain herself.
Daisy, eventually meeting up with her loyal if long-suffering admirer Frederick Winterbourne, has fled the viperous tongues of Roman society and landed in the Paris of the Exposition Universelle, of John Singer Sargent and of romantic, post-Montgolfier ballooning rides.
I know you’ll enjoy this sly, literate and insightful postlude to one of the greatest unfinished love stories of modern fiction.
- Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist and author of Wallace Stegner; A Short Biography
At last Daisy Miller gets the life she deserves--not dead of Roman fever, but fully alive: immersing herself in the pleasures of late nineteenth-century Paris, charming everyone she meets with her vivacity, and ultimately devoting herself to the cause of women's liberation. This sequel to Henry James’s 1878 novella is as appealing as its heroine—full of lively conversation and period detail.
- Ruth Hoberman, Professor emerita, English, Eastern Illinois University, and author of Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism.
Good news: reports of Daisy Miller’s death, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated. In resurrecting Henry James’ fetching ingenue, Lawrence Kessenich has done the literary world a favor, supplying Daisy this time out not only with a pen to correct Mr. James' misapprehensions, but with a derringer pistol for the wrong sort of fellow, those “unwilling to be discouraged.” Enjoyable, witty, well-written—and ultimately quite serious—this feminist Daisy has her heart and values in the right place, and so does this novel.
- David Payne, author of Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street and Barefoot to Avalon