
South Pole Station
Author: Ashley Shelby
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/29/2017

Author: Ashley Shelby
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/29/2017
Ashley Shelby is a prize-winning writer and journalist. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is the author of Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City, a narrative nonfiction account of the record-breaking flood that devastated Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1997. Her short story that became the basis for South Pole Station won the Third Coast Fiction Prize.
I'll keep this one brief. Did you read and enjoy Fobbit? Put it in Antarctica with scientists (subtract war) and voila, you have South Pole Station. I did not care for Fobbit, but I mildly enjoyed South Pole Station. It is mostly funny, dark but humanely funny. The South Pole takes less precendence t......more
“South Pole Station” by Ashley Shelby is silly, yet a bit academic. The story takes place in the real Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica (decommissioned in 2008), although Shelby took some liberties with her story. Shelby places nerdy and society misfits in the Station to study climate......more
The cover and beginning of the book suggest a light-hearted devil-may-care account. Instead, I found the story growing deeper and darker the further I read. I found the descriptions of life at the South Pole credible in terms of the harsh physical setting and the quirky interplay among the personnel......more