num_pages: 368
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 some of the questions that determine if you have what it takes to survive at South Pole Station a place with an average temperature of -54F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is sufficiently resilient for Polar life. Coopers not sure if this is an achievement but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy shes adrift at thirty anddespite her early promise as a painteron the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundations Artists &amp; Writers Program and flees to Antarcticawhere she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. Theres Pearl the Machiavellian cook with the Pollyanna attitude; Sal an enigmatic astrophysicist whose experiment might change the world; and Tucker the only uncloseted man on the continent who as station manager casts a weary eye on all. The only thing the Polies have in common is the conviction that they dont belong anywhere else. Then a fringe scientist arrives claiming climate change is a hoax. His presence will rattle this already imbalanced community bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.A winning comedy of errors set in the worlds harshest place Ashley Shelbys South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel about the courage it takes to band together even as everything around you falls apart.
language: English
title: South Pole Station
publisher: Picador