Hungover, Shaughnessy BishopStall
Hungover, Shaughnessy BishopStall
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Hungover
The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure

Author: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/20/2018

Synopsis

We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mouth full of sand, head throbbing. You're hungover. Courageous journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has gone to the front lines of humanity's age-old fight against hangovers to settle once and for all the best way to get rid of the aftereffects of a night of indulgence (short of not drinking in the first place).

Hangovers have plagued human beings for about as long as civilization has existed (and arguably longer), so there has been plenty of time for cures to be concocted. But even in 2018, little is actually known about hangovers, and less still about how to cure them. Cutting through the rumor and the myth, Hungover explores everything from polar bear swims, to saline IV drips, to the age-old hair of the dog, to let us all know which ones actually work. And along the way, Bishop-Stall regales listeners with stories from humanity's long and fraught relationship with booze, and shares the advice of everyone from Kingsley Amis to a man in a pub.

About Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's first book was an account of the year he spent in deep cover, living with the homeless in Toronto's infamous Tent City. Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown was nominated for the 2005 Pearson Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Trillium Award, and the City of Toronto Book Award. The following year, he was awarded the Knowlton Nash Journalism Fellowship at Massey College and also played the role of Jason-a bad-mannered, well-dressed journalist-on CBC-TV's The Newsroom. He currently teaches writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. He has also written a novel, Ghosted, that was published in Canada, the U.S., and France.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brook on December 21, 2018

I read a promotional copy given out to reviewers, but I was not the original intended recipient (by way of a disclaimer). This book is a mix of a shared journey, as well as a description of the actual cure. Bishop-Stall does not do the "hide the secret at the end" bit, which was refreshing. That's g......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 06, 2018

I’m a sucker for compelling quest books, stories of men and women striding confidently around the globe in search of fame, riches or adventure. That Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall conducts his in a mostly inebriated stumble only makes it more endearing. I put "Hungover" up there with Tony Horwitz and his......more

Goodreads review by Gerry on May 11, 2019

Like any respectable hangover, this book is a disorganized mess. There are times when Bishop-Stall hits just the right note of hilarious “where the hell are my pants” notes of confusion and pain as he describes his “research” into the cure for as hangover. Most of the book, however, is a boring snoo......more

Goodreads review by Derek on December 19, 2018

Bishop-Stall is so self-aware, clever, and irreverent that his writing comes off effortlessly entertaining regardless of the subject material. In this case I was interested in his findings (which reminds me I need to stop at GNC tomorrow), but I get the feeling he could have been writing about any o......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 25, 2023

I can understand the desire to erase a hangover. This globe-trotting years-long search for a cure relates a lot of the history and science of this millennia-long human yearning. I thought, simplistically, that a hangover is like a laceration and will take what it takes to recover from. There is a mu......more

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