Trying to float : coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel

Book 2016

"'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...

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ISBN:

9781501132988
1501132989

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition

Description:

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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

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1643189

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