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Shelby, Ashley, 1977-
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Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Global warming -- Fiction.
South Pole -- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Fiction.
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Shelby, Ashley, 1977-
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Global warming -- Fiction.
South Pole -- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Fiction.
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South
Pole
Station
: a
novel
/ Ashley Shelby.
by
Shelby, Ashley, 1977-
Picador, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION SHE
Subjects
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Global warming -- Fiction.
South
Pole
-- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781250112828 (hc.)
Description:
360 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"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. "--From publisher.
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