Here is where you will find what's new at St. Thomas' well-known, well-read Dockside Bookshop at Havensight Mall. Every week you will find new titles to peruse. Look for updates of our "picks" for fiction and nonfiction and, at the end of the reviews, new tradepaper books.
DOCKSIDE BOOKSHOP STORE HOURS
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tuesday and Friday
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Phone: 340-774-4937
E-mail: dockside@islands.vi
"The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood and Freedom" edited by Daniel Jones.
William Morrow, nonfiction, 320 p. $24.95.
The husband of "The Bitch in the House" responds with a collection of original pieces by male writers about what men desire, need, love, and loathe in their relationships today …
Cathi Hanauer's bestselling "The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage" spurred a national conversation about the level of friction in contemporary marriages and relationships. Now her husband, Daniel Jones, has rallied the men for the "literary equivalent of 'The Full Monty,'" in which 27 thoughtful, passionate, and often hilarious men lay it bare when it comes to their wives and girlfriends, their hopes and fears. Enough with pop psychiatrists telling us why men lie, cheat, and want nothing more than to laze around the house in front of the TV. Enough with women wondering aloud — at increasing volume — why the men in their lives behave the way they do. The time has come for men to speak for themselves.
Many of the husbands and fathers in these pages contemplate aspects of their personal lives they've never before revealed in print — they kick open the door on their marriages and sex lives, their fathering and domestic conflicts, their most intimate relationships and situations. Yet unlike the average meat-and-potatoes father who still rules the roost, these men are grappling with new ideas of manhood — some that they are going after and grabbing, and others that are being thrust upon them by a changing world.
Powerful, heartfelt, and irreverent, "The Bastard on the Couch" is a bold, unprecedented glimpse into the dark corners and glaring truths of modern relationships that is guaranteed to amuse, entertain, enrich, and provoke.
"The Coma" by Alex Garland; illustrated by Nicholas Garland.
Riverhead Books, fiction, 200 pp. $19.95
When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises profound questions about the boundaries of consciousness.
As Carl grapples with his predicament, "The Coma" plays with conventions, and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and suspenseful story of a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity.
Proclaimed "a gifted storyteller" by The New Yorker and "a huge literary talent" by Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Garland, the internationally best-selling author of "The Beach," "The Tesseract," and writer of the critically acclaimed film "28 Days Later," returns with yet another gripping page-turner that blurs the edges of reality and probes the boundaries of consciousness. A man is attacked on the Underground and awakens to find himself in a hospital, apparently having emerged from a coma. Or has he? Garland's brilliant tale is illustrated with 40 haunting woodblock print illustrations by his father, Nicholas Garland, a well-known political cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph (UK) and noted artist.
1. "Still Life with Crow" by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, $7.99
2. "The Skrayling Tree" by Michael Moorcock, $6.99
1. "No Easy Answers" for Charlotte Amalie High School 12 is back!
2. "The Light in the Forest" for Bertha C. Boschulte Junior High School is back!
3. "Math Curse" for Boschulte is now in stock!
4. "The Cat Ate My Gymsuit" for Addelita Cancryn Junior School 7 is still in stock!
5. "The Skin I'm In" for Cancryn 8 is still in stock!
We will gladly order any books you want. E-mail us at dockside@islands.vi, or call 340-774-4937.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tuesday and Friday
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Phone: 340-774-4937
E-mail: dockside@islands.vi
