{"product_id":"running-the-light","title":"Running the Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sam Tallent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48548751605954,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/91pdSI5GkNL._SY522.jpg?v=1785945718","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/running-the-light","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}