Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return

✍ Scribed by Riker, Martin

• Book ID: 110470082
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 678 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781566895361

✦ Synopsis

A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection

When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel's soul journeys on a comic quest through domestic America, inhabiting a series of lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A passive action-novel, a ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker's wholly original debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world.

Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and...