Book
South Pole Station : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1250112826
- ISBN: 9781250112828
- ISBN: 1250112826 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250112828 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250112828 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1250112826 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Subtitle taken from cover. |
| Summary, etc.: | " 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. "-- |
Search for related items by subject
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Humorous fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at Bibliomation.
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| Bethel Public Library | F SHELBY (Text) | 34030141525904 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/SHELBY (Text) | 34029141049279 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Derby Public Library | FIC SHE (Text) | 34047138777017 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC SHELBY,A (Text) | 34026139775964 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION SHELBY (Text) | 32518138269827 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC She (Text) | 33620131442705 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| New Milford Public Library | F SHELB (Text) | 34021131218741 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Norfolk Library | FIC SHE (Text) | 36058010247001 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| North Branch - Bridgeport | FIC SHELBY (Text) | 34000081218125 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ridgefield Library | FIC SHELBY (Text) | 34010140033431 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
