The Secret Life of Books

Season 2 Episode 4: Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Performance poet and former heroin addict John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's autobiographical classic Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and discovers how his fellow Mancunian's addiction memoir avoids the cliches of modern 'misery-lit' in favour of something much more unsentimental and psychologically complex.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

2

Episodes:

12

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

30 min

First Air:

2014

Rating:

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