Title: Su Luz Interior
First published: October 1999
Description: Danielle Steel's moving personal story of the son she lost to manic depression.This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.'From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories, Steel brings us a haunting duet between and singular young man and the mother who loved him - and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression.Nick rocketed through life like a shooting star. He spoke in full sentences at the age of one. He was a brilliant, charming child who never slept. His gift for writing was extraordinary, his musical talent promised a golden future. But by the time he entered junior high, he was hurtling towards disaster. His mother tried desperately to get him the help he needed - the opening salvos for what would become a ferocious battle for his life. At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel's tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing and understanding to us all. 'I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it...My hope is that someone will be able to use what we learned, and save a life with it'
Subjects: Family, Open Library Staff Picks, Bipolar Disorder, Manic-depressive persons, American Authors, Nonfiction, American Women authors, Family Relations, Biography & Autobiography, Family relationships, Personal Narratives, Biography, Mothers and sons, Families, Authors, biography, Mentally ill, biography, Manic-depressive illness, Family relationship, Autoras estadounidenses, Enfermos mentales, Relaciones familiares, Biografía, Personas maniacodepresivas, Translations from English, German fiction, English fiction, Translations into German, Personal narratives
Places: United States
People: Nick Traina, Danielle Steel
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: RC516 .S78 1998