{"product_id":"9781399634953","title":"Running the Light","description":"Author: Sam Tallent\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399634953\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orion\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 13 May 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on bail' DBC PIERRE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrapped 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn '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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46713708871838,"sku":"ADS-9781399634953","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781399634953.jpg?v=1776038921","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781399634953","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}