{"product_id":"b0dk4kfywr","title":"Running the Light: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots,” ( Denver Post ) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man’s life as we search for the mercy he does not want.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67975326236708,"sku":"YSL62325","price":6.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/91pdSI5GkNL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793605157","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b0dk4kfywr","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}