{"product_id":"9781399632874-running-the-light","title":"Running the Light","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The best novel I've ever read about comedy' Megan Nolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 'thrilling, nauseating and painfully real' (MEGAN NOLAN) novel that follows struggling stand-up comedian Billy Ray Schafer over seven spun-out days in the American Southwest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'THE BEST NOVEL I'VE EVER READ ABOUT COMEDY' Megan Nolan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'GLORIOUSLY DEPRAVED' Geoff Dyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'LIT UP MY PLEASURE CENTRES AND LEFT ME STUNNED' Rob Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\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'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, he travels from hell gig to hell gig across the American Southwest in search of a reason to keep living. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray is the answer to a tragic question: What happens when opportunity never arrives? Or - worse - when it comes and goes?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eExceptional . Running the Light is Dante as gag artist, trapped in a Diabolical Comedy. Or maybe, in the end, a disgraced Odysseus searching for a way back home to contrition and forgiveness. Read it and weep'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Nothing I've read hits the psycho-chemical abyss of road life turned horribly wrong quite like this' LIAS SAOUDI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56585121399158,"sku":"9781399632874","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37682484_2cee945b-6ea1-4487-ad64-7aab11c9e3d2.jpg?v=1762395875","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399632874-running-the-light","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}