New & Recommended

June 22, 2008

The Last Fish Tale
By Mark Kurlansky
Viewed through the prism of Gloucester's past, a survey of new pressures on the city's 400-year-old fishing heritage (Ballantine, $35).

The Garden of Last DaysBy Andre Dubus III
An incandescent and absorbing novel about three lives that intersect at a Florida strip club (Norton, $24.95).

The New ScriptureBy Sebastian Barry
In Ireland past and present, a doctor and patient plumb the depths of their souls (Viking, $24.95).

Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe.