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360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"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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Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
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Escape (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
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Global warming -- Fiction.
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South Pole -- Fiction.
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Antarctica -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Psychological fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781250112828 (hardback) |
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