Title South Pole Station : a novel / Ashley Shelby.

Publication Info.	New York : Picador, 2017.
	©2017

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Edition	First edition.
Description	360 pages : illustrations ; 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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
	Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
	Global warming -- Fiction.
	South Pole -- Fiction.
	Antarctica -- Fiction.
	FICTION / Literary.
	FICTION / Humorous.
	FICTION / Family Life.
	Belonging (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst01764316
	Eccentrics and eccentricities. (OCoLC)fst00901271
	Escape (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00915123
	Global warming. (OCoLC)fst00943506
	Antarctica. (OCoLC)fst01239992
	Antarctica -- South Pole. (OCoLC)fst01244537
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction.
	Humorous fiction.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
	Humorous fiction.
ISBN	9781250112828 (hardback)
	1250112826 (hardback)

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