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Running the Light: A Novel book cover by Sam Tallent
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Running the Light: A Novel

by Sam Tallent

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Paperback · 352 pages Random House Publishing Group · 2025

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Running the Light

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.

The book, Running the Light: A Novel [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780593978870 in Paperback by Sam Tallent may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Author
Sam Tallent
Format
Paperback
Published
Mar 25, 2025
ISBN-13
9780593978870
ISBN-10
0593978870
Pages
352
Carton quantity
24 copies
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