{"product_id":"running-the-light-sam-tallent-9781399632874","title":"Running the Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e'THE BEST NOVEL I'VE EVER READ ABOUT COMEDY' Megan Nolan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'GLORIOUSLY DEPRAVED' Geoff Dyer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'LIT UP MY PLEASURE CENTRES AND LEFT ME STUNNED' Rob Doyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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...'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Exceptional . . . 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Nothing I've read hits the psycho-chemical abyss of road life turned horribly wrong quite like this' LIAS SAOUDI\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sam Tallent","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":68050006868211,"sku":"9781399632874","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781399632874.jpg?v=1793386956","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/running-the-light-sam-tallent-9781399632874","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}