Running the Light

A bona fide "instant classic" (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing...
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Author: Sam Tallent
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Running the Light by Tallent, Sam

Running the Light

$26.87

Running the Light

$26.87
Author: Sam Tallent
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A bona fide "instant classic" (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam Tallent

Billy 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.

Debauched, 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?

"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.

Author: Sam Tallent
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593978870

About the Author
Sam Tallent is a comedian, novelist, and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast. For the last decade, he has performed more than forty-five weekends per year in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Sam has two comedy specials: Waiting For Death to Claim Us and The Toad's Morale. He also has a travel show, Wide World, on YouTube. He lives in Detroit and cooks dinner for his wife every night.

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