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"As a former resident of the Chelsea Hotel, I came at this book with trepidation. What could an 17-year-old have to say about the last Dionysian castle in New York City? My skepticism ended with the prologue. Nicolaia Rips writes with wit, discipline, and grace. Her voice is real. With this book she is announcing herself as a force in the next generation of artists."
--Ethan Hawke
"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, author of Netherland and The Dog
"I love this book! Nicolaia Rips, while young, is the real thing. Wodehouse reborn in a young girl. He would have been charmed."
--Joel Grey, author of Master of Ceremonies
"Trying to Float is hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise-- a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents. No doubt, people will allude to other books in attempts to describe this one (Holden Caulfield if he went to public school, Eloise without room service) but truly Nicolaia's chronicle is sui generis. I had such a good time reading it that the person I share an apartment with told me to stop saying, "You can't believe how extraordinary this is!" because he was trying to concentrate on something else and anyway, he believed me the first time." --Patricia Marx "New Yorker staff writer and author of Let's Be Less Stupid and Him Her Him Again The End of Hi "
"Nicolaia Rips is an old-soul sophisticate who's written a breezy memoir. [Trying to Float] is like Eloise Meets Wes Anderson."--Elle
"Rips is disarmingly inquisitive . . . and a magnetic storyteller. Count Rips as one of the hotel's most gifted latter-day offspring."--O Magazine
"A charmingly self-deprecating and very funny collection of short chapters chronicling the awkwardness of elementary-school growing pains against the backdrop of living in the iconic and infamous Chelsea Hotel, Trying to Float is at once highly insightful and deeply familiar."--W Magazine
"Seventeen-year-old Nicolaia Rips is wise beyond her years in her off-kilter memoir, Trying to Float."--Vanity Fair
"Rips' ability to write simply, paired with her dry wit, propels the reader through her coming-of-age...An impressive debut."--Onion A.V. Club
"Rips is a gifted writer who quickly reveals a mature, nuanced insight into human behavior. She has a genuine talent for extracting comic potential within these encounters, yet she balances them with moments of surprising poignancy. An engaging story with a big heart, written by a young adult whose sharply tuned and often witty observations will appeal to adults and teens alike." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review
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“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, warmhearted memoir about growing up in New York City’s legendary Chelsea Hotel.
Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned sculptor who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious and wry high school student at work on a highly unusual extracurricular activity, an official record of her peculiar childhood.
Nicolaia is a perpetual outsider who has struggled to find her place in schools populated by cliquish girls and loudmouthed boys. But at the Chelsea, Nicolaia she has found her tribe. There’s her neighbor Stormé, a tall albino woman who keeps a pink handgun strapped to her ankle; her babysitter, Jade, 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 realizes that the Chelsea’s motley crew could hold the key to surviving the perils of her adolescence.
“Nicolaia Rips is an old-soul sophisticate. Trying to Float is like Eloise meets Wes Anderson” (Elle), and not since Holden Caulfield has there been such a fabulously compelling teen guide to New York City. Rips’s debut is “charmingly self-deprecating and very funny...at once highly insightful and deeply familiar” (W Magazine), a triumphant parable for the power of embracing difference in all its forms. Her “engaging story with a big heart...will appeal to adults and teens alike” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
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- VerlagScribner
- Erscheinungsdatum2017
- ISBN 10 1501132997
- ISBN 13 9781501132995
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Über den AutorNicolaia 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 tolera. Artikel-Nr. 903496004
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