The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood ; Youth ; Dependency Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman

eBook - 2021

A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug ...addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her...

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Published
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Main Authors
Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman
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Overdrive Resource Page
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File Size709 MB
ISBN9780374602406
Release Date1/26/2021
Kindle Book
ASINB088DQXC5R
Release Date1/26/2021
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780374602406
Release Date1/26/2021