Running the Light - 'The best novel I've ever read about comedy' Megan Nolan

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. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father - stand-up comedian is the only title this thoroughly ruined man has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career and the addictions that travel with it, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: what happens when the opportunity doesn''t come - or worse - it comes and goes?

Product details

• Authors: Sam Tallent
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399632898
• ISBN: 978-1-399-63289-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Fiction: general and literary, Comedy and stand-up, Satirical fiction and parodies, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, FICTION / Performing Arts / General, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor