The final volume in the renowned Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen's
autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" --The
Guardian). Following Childhood and Youth, Dependency is the
searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship,
ambition, and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth
century writers
Tove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet, and the
wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, yet
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.
The final volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, and arguably Ditlevsen's
masterpiece, Dependency is a dark and blisteringly honest account of
addiction, and the way out.