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New PDF release: South Pole Station: A Novel

By Ashley Shelby

DO you may have DIGESTION difficulties as a result of pressure? DO you could have issues of AUTHORITY? what percentage ALCOHOLIC beverages DO YOU devour every week? might YOU otherwise be A FLORIST OR A TRUCK DRIVER?

These are a few of the questions that ascertain when you have what it takes to outlive at South Pole Station, a spot with a typical temperature of -54°F and no sun for 6 months a yr. Cooper Gosling has simply spoke back of them. Her effects point out she is irregular sufficient for Polar life.

Cooper’s uncertain if this can be an success, yet she is aware she has not anything to lose. Unmoored by way of a contemporary family members tragedy, she’s adrift at thirty and—despite her early promise as a painter—on the verge of sinking her occupation. So she accepts her position within the nationwide technology Foundation’s Artists & Writers application and flees to Antarctica, the place she encounters a gaggle of misfits encouraged by means of wants as ambiguous as her personal. the single factor the Polies have in universal is the conviction that they don’t belong at any place else. Then a perimeter scientist arrives, claiming weather switch is a hoax. His presence will rattle this already-imbalanced neighborhood, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the guts of a world controversy and perilous the traditional ice chip they name home.

A warmhearted comedy of blunders set within the world’s most harsh position, Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel concerning the braveness it takes to band jointly while every thing round you falls apart.

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