Nicolaia Rips: Trying to Float: Chronicles of a Girl in the Chelsea Hotel [2016] hardback ZSCFI perhaps a masterpiece' - Independent

perhaps a masterpiece' - Independent

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Nicolaia Rips: Trying to Float: Chronicles of a Girl in the Chelsea Hotel [2016] hardback ZSCFI perhaps a masterpiece' - Independent"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