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Trying to float : coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel /

"'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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rips, Nicolaia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Rips, Nicolaia > Childhood and youth.
Chelsea Hotel > Biography.
Coming of age > New York (State) > New York.
Girls > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Teenage girls > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Bohemianism > New York (State) > New York.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Part One: THE FLEDGLING YEARS
  • My First Trip
  • Italy
  • Preschool
  • The Pool Party
  • The Crafties
  • 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
  • The Sewer and the Cutter
  • 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.