Description
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-fathercomedian 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 doesnt comeor worseit comes and goes?
In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots, (Denver Post) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a mans life as we search for the mercy he does not want.
Author: Sam Tallent
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593978870
Language: English
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