South Pole Station a novel
"Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average tempe...
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[2017]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a South Pole Station : |b a novel / |c Ashley Shelby. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Picador, |c [2017] | |
| 300 | |a 360 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a "Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career as a painter. So she applies to the National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica -- the bottom of the Earth -- where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. There's Pearl, the cook whose Carrot Mushroom Loaf becomes means toward her Machiavellian ambitions; the oxymoronic Sal (he is an attractive astrophysicist); and Tucker, the only gay black man on the continent who, as station manager, casts a watchful eye on all. The only thing they have in common is the conviction that they don't belong anywhere else. Enter Frank Pavano -- a climatologist with unorthodox beliefs. His presence will rattle this already unbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the 800-million-year-old ice chip they call home. In the tradition of And Then We Came to the End and Where'd You Go Bernadette?, South Pole Station is a warmhearted comedy of errors set in the world's harshest place. "-- Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Eccentrics and eccentricities |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Escape (Psychology) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Belonging (Social psychology) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global warming |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a South Pole |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Antarctica |v Fiction. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Humorous fiction |z Antarctica. | |
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