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Trying to float

coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel

First Scribner hardcover edition.
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An edition of Trying to float (2016)

Trying to float

coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel

First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few--but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar seventeen years. Nicolaia is a perpetual outsider who has struggled to find her place in public schools populated by cliquish girls and loudmouthed boys. But at the Chelsea, Nicolaia need not look far to find her tribe. There's her neighbor Storme, a tall woman who keeps a pink handgun strapped to her ankle; her babysitter, Paris, who may or may not have a second career as an escort; her friend Artie, former proprietor of New York's most famous nightclubs. The kids at school might never understand her, but as Nicolaia endeavors to fit in she begins to understand that the Chelsea's motley crew could hold the key to surviving the perils of a Manhattan childhood. Not since Holden Caulfield has there been such a fabulously compelling teen guide to New York City: Nicolaia Rips's debut is a disarming, humble, heartfelt, and wise tale of coming-of-age amid the contradictions, complexities, and shifting identities of life in New York City. A bohemian Eloise for our times, Trying to Float is a triumphant parable for the power of embracing difference in all its forms"--

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Pages
254

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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
2017, Scribner
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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
2017, Simon & Schuster, Limited
in English
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Trying to Float: Chronicles of a Girl in the Chelsea Hotel
2016-07-14, Simon & Schuster Ltd
Cover of: Trying to float
Trying to float: coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel
2016
in English - First Scribner hardcover edition.
Cover of: Trying to Float
Trying to Float: Chronicles of a Girl in the Chelsea Hotel
2016, Simon & Schuster, Limited
in English
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Trying to Float: A Memoir
2016, Scribner
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Table of Contents

Prologue
Part One: THE FLEDGLING YEARS
My First Trip
Italy
Preschool
The Pool Party
The Craftys
Halloween
My Steed
Pippi
Eyes
Stormé
But Not the Fish
A Leg Up
A Crush
Artie
My Babysitters
The Theater
Rebecca
Winter Valley
The Traitor
My Friend Fan
The Traitor Revealed
Part Two: MIDDLE SCHOOL
Friendship
The Delicacy of Love
Friendship and Chocolate
Greta Returns
Moving On
King of the Night
The Studio
My Crowd
The Schnoz
Mom vs. Mama
The Dance
The Shaman
Tic-Tac-Toke
Summer Camp
An Unexpected Journey
My Interested Look
Cinderella
The Banana Peels of Optimism
The Playing Fields of West Chelsea
Mr. Crafty Moves Out
At Last
Author's Note.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
974.7, B
Library of Congress
F128.57.R57 A3 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 254 pages
Number of pages
254

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27210843M
Internet Archive
tryingtofloatcom0000rips
ISBN 10
1501132989
ISBN 13
9781501132988
LCCN
2016014365
OCLC/WorldCat
946254974

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