{"product_id":"running-the-light-paperback","title":"Running the Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Tallent\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDoug Stanhope\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Tallent\u003c\/b\u003e is a comedian, novelist, and host of the \u003ci\u003eChubby Behemoth\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eWaiting For Death to Claim Us\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Toad's Morale. \u003c\/i\u003eHe also has a travel show, \u003ci\u003eWide World\u003c\/i\u003e, on YouTube. He lives in Detroit and cooks dinner for his wife every night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43154255085631,"sku":"9780593978870","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/vuoi9QWJg49780593978870.webp?v=1776955170","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/running-the-light-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}