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 DegreesF and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is strange enough for Polar life. Cooper's not sure if this is an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, she's adrift at thirty and-despite her early promise as a painter-on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundation's Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica-where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. A winning comedy of errors set in the world's harshest place, Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel about the courage it takes to come together, even as everything around you falls apart. . For readers of dysfunctional family dramas such as Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest (but in Antarctica, with beards)
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador USA
ISBN-13
9781250112828
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238168999
Product Key Features
Book Title
South Pole Station
Author
Ashley Shelby
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2017
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
244mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
558g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ashley Shelby
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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