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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Running the Light

Running the Light

Tallent, Sam
Stanhope, Doug

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0593978870
ISBN13: 9780593978870
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A bona fide instant classic (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam Tallent

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.

Debauched, 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?

In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots, (Denver Post) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man's life as we search for the mercy he does not want.

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