Youth
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1918-19762019
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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.
Youth / Tove Ditlevsen ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
London : Penguin Books, 2019.
123 pages ; 22 cm.
Originally published as: Ungdom. 1967. This translation originally published: The Seal Press, 1985.Translated from the Danish.
9780241405550
839.81092839.81
English
364684
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 839.81 DIT | Available |