Childhood ; Youth ; Dependency : the Copenhagen trilogy
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1917-19762020
Books, Manuscripts
Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Tove feels that her childhood is made for a completely different girl. As 'long, mysterious words begin to crawl across my soul', she comes to understand that she has a vocation that will define her life. Her path seems assured, but she has no idea of the struggles ahead - love affairs, wanted and unwanted pregnancies, artistic failure and destructive addiction. As the years go by, the central tension of Tove's life comes into painful focus: the terrible lure of dependency, in all its forms, and the possibility of living freely and fearlessly - as an artist on her own terms.
Main title:
Childhood ; Youth ; Dependency : the Copenhagen trilogy / Tove Ditlevsen ; translated by Tiina Nunnally and by Michael Favala Goldman.
Author:
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1917-1976, authorNunnally, Tiina, 1952-, translatorGoldman, Michael (Michael Favala), translator
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
370 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the Danish.
ISBN:
9780241457573 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.81372
LC class:
PT8175.D5
Language:
EnglishDanish
Subject:
BRN:
2701433
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