Youth

Author: Tove Ditlevsen; Anon

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780241405550
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : 0.368317
  • : July 2019
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  • : Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
  • : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 1910
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  • : English
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Description

Unable to stay on to high school, Tove starts her first job (which lasts only one day) and soon embarks on a varied and chequered career: as au pair, cleaner, stock-room assistant and office worker. But Tove is hungry, for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As she navigates exploitative bosses, uninspiring boyfriends and a Nazi landlady, she struggles to keep her poetic vocation in sight - until she finally realizes the 'miracle' that she has always dreamed of.


The second volume in Ditlvesen's autobiographical trilogy, Youth is a sensitive, often funny and almost painfully truthful portrayal of adolescence.