{"product_id":"running-the-light-sam-tallent-9781399632898","title":"Running the Light","description":"'A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN\n'Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on bail' DBC PIERRE\nDebauched, 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. \nTrapped 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?\nIn 'a majestically bleak, hilarious and bruising tour of regret, delusion and the detonation of the soul' (Sam Lipsyte), Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man's life as we search for the mercy he does not want.","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50187268194592,"sku":"9781399632898","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781399632898.jpg?v=1780759664","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/running-the-light-sam-tallent-9781399632898","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}