Dependency

<p><b>The final volume in the renowned Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy</b> <b>("A masterpiece"</b> <b>&#8212;<i>The Guardian</i>). F</b><b>ollowing <i>Childhood</i> and <i>Youth</i>, <i>Dependency</i> 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<br></b>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&#8212;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&#8212;as an artist on her own terms.<br>The final volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, and arguably Ditlevsen's masterpiece, <i>Dependency </i>is a dark and blisteringly honest account of addiction, and the way out.</p>