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Trying to Float: Coming of age in New York´s legendary Chelsea Hotel
Nicolaia Rips
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Description for Trying to Float: Coming of age in New York´s legendary Chelsea Hotel
Paperback. A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. Num Pages: 256 pages, b-w photographs. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
`Entertaining and refreshingly introspective' Times Literary Supplement They were like balloons that had escaped a child's grasp - pointlessly floating. Focus! I would plead with my mother. And my father was forever being diverted. Allow us to introduce you to the Rips family: Michael, Sheila and daughter Nicolaia, the last denizens of New York's famous Chelsea Hotel. Better yet, allow Nicolaia to introduce them since it's her earnest, wry, occasionally wicked, but always affectionate observations that you'll find in her memoir, Trying to Float. Not only a coming-of-age ... Read more
`Entertaining and refreshingly introspective' Times Literary Supplement They were like balloons that had escaped a child's grasp - pointlessly floating. Focus! I would plead with my mother. And my father was forever being diverted. Allow us to introduce you to the Rips family: Michael, Sheila and daughter Nicolaia, the last denizens of New York's famous Chelsea Hotel. Better yet, allow Nicolaia to introduce them since it's her earnest, wry, occasionally wicked, but always affectionate observations that you'll find in her memoir, Trying to Float. Not only a coming-of-age ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471156885
SKU
V9781471156885
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About Nicolaia Rips
Nicolaia Rips is a freshman at Brown University (class of 2020). She has lived at the Chelsea Hotel for her entire life. In her spare time, she studies vocal music, participates in team sports, reads avidly, and tolerates her parents. Trying to Float is her first book.
Reviews for Trying to Float: Coming of age in New York´s legendary Chelsea Hotel
`I love this book! Nicolaia Rips, while young, is the real thing, Wodehouse reborn in a young girl. He would have been charmed'
Joel Gray, author of Master of Ceremonies `These little tales about little rascals in New York City are charming, strange, and inspiring. What a very funny, improbably truthful book about childhood this is'
Joseph O'Neill, ... Read more
Joel Gray, author of Master of Ceremonies `These little tales about little rascals in New York City are charming, strange, and inspiring. What a very funny, improbably truthful book about childhood this is'
Joseph O'Neill, ... Read more