Publisher's Synopsis
Miss Daisy, a beautiful and free American girl from the mid-nineteenth century, spends a few weeks in Switzerland to continue her European journey in Rome. His beauty and carefree behavior dazzle the young Winterboune, at the same time they irritate the boy's aunt, paradigm of the rigid society of the time. The cheerful freedom of Miss Daisy, so far ahead of her time, is for the circle of Americans in Rome of aberrant debauchery and vulgarity, which adds to Winterboune in the confusion of taking sides between courage and cowardice, between scandal and tedium.
