In this major revision of " The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's readers and admirers.
Don Juan in Lourdes..".an admirable idea--the failed writer and unfailing sensualist, losing his sight, dragged to Lourdes for a miracle, roughing up all Europe on the way....What Hemingway did for the twenties in "The Sun Also Rises, " DeMaria does here for the sixties."--Anthony Burgess.
