Samuel Johnson's eternal return

Description:

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 an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own.

subjects: Future life,  Fiction,  Fiction, fantasy, contemporary,  Fiction, humorous,  New York Times reviewed,  FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor,  FICTION / Ghost,  FICTION / Absurdist