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The Resource South Pole Station : A Novel, Ashley Shelby, (electronic resource)

South Pole Station : A Novel, Ashley Shelby, (electronic resource)

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"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."--$cProvided by publisher
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South Pole Station : A Novel
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South Pole Station
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A Novel
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Ashley Shelby
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eng
Summary
"Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career as a painter. So she applies to the National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica -- the bottom of the Earth -- where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. There's Pearl, the cook whose Carrot Mushroom Loaf becomes means toward her Machiavellian ambitions; the oxymoronic Sal (he is an attractive astrophysicist); and Tucker, the only gay black man on the continent who, as station manager, casts a watchful eye on all. The only thing they have in common is the conviction that they don't belong anywhere else. Enter Frank Pavano -- a climatologist with unorthodox beliefs. His presence will rattle this already unbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the 800-million-year-old ice chip they call home. In the tradition of And Then We Came to the End and Where'd You Go Bernadette?, South Pole Station is a warmhearted comedy of errors set in the world's harshest place."--$cProvided by publisher
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Shelby, Ashley
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  • Eccentrics and eccentricities
  • Escape (Psychology)
  • Belonging (Social psychology)
  • Global warming
  • South Pole
  • Antarctica
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South Pole Station : A Novel, Ashley Shelby, (electronic resource)
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  • 336 p.
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9781250112859
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South Pole Station : A Novel, Ashley Shelby, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
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Electronic book
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
  • 1 online resource
  • 336 p.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781250112859
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
ng5xxg9
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
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(MnSpTMCL)ng5xxg9
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  • Format: Adobe EPUB
  • Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 2.2 MB)

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