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‘A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN
‘Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on bail' DBC PIERRE
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 ‘a majestically bleak, hilarious and bruising tour of regret, delusion and the detonation of the soul' (Sam Lipsyte), Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man's life as we search for the mercy he does not want.
Publisher : White Rabbit
Publication date : 15 May 2025
Language : English
Print length : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 1399632892
ISBN-13 : 978-1399632898
Item weight : 550 g
Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.4 x 23.6 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 144,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 137 in Self-Help & Psychology Humour 1,008 in Love, Sex & Marriage Humour 1,012 in The Performing Arts
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