South Pole Station : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250112859
- ISBN: 1250112826
- ISBN: 9781250112828
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Physical Description:
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
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Subject: | Antarctica Fiction South Pole Fiction Global warming Fiction Belonging (Social psychology) Fiction Escape (Psychology) Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Independence Branch | SHELB A (Text) | 33126022229334 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 April #2
Struggling with a family tragedy and its aftermath, painter Cooper Gosling receives a science and writing grant to work at the South Pole Station. By going to the "ends of the earth," she hopes to accept her loss and adjust her thinking. The sharp learning curve includes harsh weather conditions, the hierarchy of the station's social structure, and the political implications of competing scientific theories. Cooper struggles to find a new way to express herself as she gradually becomes an accepted member of the inner circle. Then she's injured in a freak accident, an event that snowballs into a major international incident. In the aftermath, she builds a new perspective and approach to life and art. Shelby's first novel, based on a short story that won the Third Coast Fiction Prize, skillfully weaves science, climate change, politics, sociology, and art. Competing ideas about the origins of the universe are wrapped in the vagaries of human nature and the dangers of climate extremes. Her characters are a quirky subset of humanity.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal.VERDICT All readers of fiction, particularly those interested in life in extreme climates, will find this appealing. [See Prepub Alert, 2/17/17.]âJoanna Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Libs., Providence