South Pole Station
(Book - Regular Print)
Author
Published
New York : Picador, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
SHELBY, A.
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SHELBY, A.
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Published
New York : Picador, [2017].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Subtitle taken from cover.
Description
"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shelby, A. (2017). South Pole Station (First edition.). Picador.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shelby, Ashley, 1977-. 2017. South Pole Station. Picador.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shelby, Ashley, 1977-. South Pole Station Picador, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shelby, Ashley. South Pole Station First edition., Picador, 2017.
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