{"product_id":"running-the-light-9780593978870","title":"Running the Light","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bona fide \"instant classic\" (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam Tallent\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilly Ray Schafer stepped off the plane in Amarillo, Texas, with twenty-six hundred dollars tucked down the leg of his black ostrich-skin cowboy boot. He walked to baggage claim slowly, jelly-legged and nearing lucidity, coming out from under the Xanax he snorted before the flight.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDebauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father--comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when opportunity doesn't come--or worse--it comes and goes? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots,\" (\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man's life as we search for the mercy he does not want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sam Tallent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593978870","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834525352073,"sku":"9780593978870","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9a9bded3-7ed8-4da7-b313-3b708e8ad52e.jpg?v=1743489233","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/running-the-light-9780593978870","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}