Happy book birthday to Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall‘s HUNGOVER, publishing today with Penguin Random House in the U.S.!
HUNGOVER is forthcoming with HarperCollins Canada (November 27); Dumont Verlag, Germany (Fall 2019); Cassiopeia Publisher, Korea; Bukowy Las, Poland; and was previously published in the U.K. with Blink Publishing (November 15).
HUNGOVER is an irresistible blend of culture, history, science, philosophy and mischievous humour – one intrepid reporter’s quest to learn everything there is to know about hangovers, trying all of the cures he can find and explaining how (and if) they work, all so the rest of us don’t have to.
The pre-publication praise is as strong as the long-standing desire to cure hangovers:
“In his irreverent, well-oiled memoir, HUNGOVER, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall sets out on a liver-punishing world tour in search of a cure for the condition. With a heavy pour of gonzo styling, the author samples the local culture not only through the bottle but by throwing himself into activities that only a madman would voluntarily do while hung over… Between accounts of pub crawls, Oktoberfest and meetings with the heads of hangover-cure companies, Mr. Bishop-Stall packs his book with humorous and enlightening asides about alcohol in literature (there’s lots of it), athletes as accomplished at the bar as on the field (David Wells pitched a perfect game after a rager) and more.”
—Brian Kelly, The Wall Street Journal
“Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall serves up part travelogue and part confession here. At the outset, he pays some tribute to the hard-drinking English novelist and critic Kingsley Amis, who was no stranger to the hangover. Indeed, Hungover is a tribute to working through what Amis himself once described as the two components of the dreaded ‘morning after’: the physical side (for which there are varied remedies about which he wrote in detail). And then the metaphysical side, which, as Bishop-Stall demonstrates in eleven chapters of often disarmingly personal prose.”
—Forbes.com
“Fans of Mary Roach will delight in Bishop-Stall’s similar knack for collecting stories and anecdotes from a quirky cast of experts, as well as his similar proclivity for fascinating tangents… Hungover is a world tour of a party, with a raucous cast of winos and experts, figures cultural and political… Reading Hungover is akin to watching The Hangover… his sense of adventure and one-liners make for a similarly uproarious ride.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Hangovers have haunted humans since the invention of beer and will follow us like a dirty, drunk shadow until the end of our days. But there are a few hopefuls among us who say we are not doomed to that fate. In Hungover, journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall tests out hangover cures like polar bear swims and saline IV drips in an effort to figure out how to make Sunday mornings a bit more sufferable. He sorts through the fact and the fiction so you don’t have to.”
—Inverse.com