This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

Helle Helle

Original title: This should be written in the present tense

earliest edition we have, 2014 Counterpoint Press, 2016 208 pages

"Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per - the first boyfriend she tells us about, and the first she leaves - as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to write"--

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Martin Aitken 1 printing we hold · 2015

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Editions we hold

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense edition · 2016 · Counterpoint Press · 208 pages · 9781619027626
This should be written in the present tense edition · 2015 · 186 pages · 9781593766337
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense edition · 2015 · Penguin Random House · 192 pages · 9780099587477
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense edition · 2014 · Penguin Random House · 192 pages · 9781448182930

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