Running the Light

'' 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sam Tallent
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399634953
• ISBN: 978-1-399-63495-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Performing arts: comedy, 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