{"product_id":"running-the-light","title":"Running the Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots,' (\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man's life as we search for the mercy he does not want.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Running the Light","offer_id":44707258106053,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-3996-3495-3.jpg?v=1746573510","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/running-the-light","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}