South Pole Station
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 605 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
" 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.
Series: Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover
Subjects:
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Global warming -- Fiction.
Large type books.
South Pole -- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Fiction.
South Pole -- Juvenile fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Global warming -- Fiction.
Large type books.
South Pole -- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Fiction.
South Pole -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781432845124
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