Running the Light

Name: Running the Light
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Author: Sam Tallent
ISBN: 9781705297766

Author: Sam Tallent, Kyle Kinane

Narrator: Greg Chaille, Kristine Levine, Tracy Chaille, Rick Kerns, Adam Cayton Holland, Doug Stanhope, Marc Maron, David Gborie, Tim Dillon, Phil Palisoul, Emily Tallent, Bert Kreischer, Trae Crowder, Dan Soder, Nathan Lund, John Novosad, Ari Shaffir, Nora Lynch, Kyle Kinane, Chris Gethard, Jackie Kashian

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/16/2021

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Psychological

Synopsis

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?

About Sam Tallent

Sam Tallent is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Running the Light. Called "the absurd voice of a surreal generation" by the Denver Post, Sam is beloved by fans of contemporary comedy. He was a New Face at the 2019 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, he won his battle on Comedy Central's Roast Battle, hosted the Denver episode of VICELAND's Flophouse, and appeared on the Chris Gerhard Show to impress a girl. Sam lives in Colorado with his wife and his dog.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

Sam Tallent is a Stand Up Comedian. A lot of comedians write (or “write”) books of humorist essays or freewheeling road stories but these are typically side projects, efforts to expand into another market, sell more tickets. They are secondary to what they do on stage and ultimately, from the qualit......more

Goodreads review by Norm

In the interests of full disclosure, I am a standup comedian, I know Sam Tallent personally, and I have worked with him. He's one of my favorite people in the business, and he's also the best comic I've ever seen at just riffing off-the-cuff. He's a lightning-fast force of nature on stage who is tot......more