Running the Light
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Average rating4.6
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Average rating4.6
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 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 the opportunity doesn't come - or worse - it comes and goes?
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The best book out there about the life of a road comic in all its horrible glory - every comedian will meet a Billy Ray Schafer at some point.
Also potentially the first book I've read to truly make partying, drinking and drugs sound as empty and unappealing as the author intended it to sound.
