| Title | : | His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina |
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (443 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385334672 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2000-02-08 |
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"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death. I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want Nick's life to be not only a tender memory for us, but a gift to others. I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. I want to make a difference. My hope is that someone will be able to use what we learned, and save a life with it."—Danielle Steel From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful, personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him—and a harrowing portrait of a masked kill
Editorial : Like Kurt Cobain, Nick Traina lived for punk rock (his bands made two CDs, Gift Before I Go and 17 Reasons), succumbed to heroin addiction, and died of suicide. His mom, Danielle Steel, takes us through her 19 twister-like years with Nick in a memoir more affecting than her potboiler novels. Like his AWOL addict father, Nick had good looks, bad behavior, and a yen for the feminine. Five days before he died, he phoned a woman he saw in a centerfold and had a new girlfriend by nightfall. But his fun was ever haunted by manic depression. At age 11, he was a bed wetter who ate all the Tylenol and Sudafed in the house. He first considered suicide at 13, as Steel learned by reading his diaries after his death. There is tension in this story--one doctor told Steel if she could get Nick to live to 30, he'd probably live a normal life span. (For example, Nick's troubled dad resurfaced, sober, soon after his son's death.) And Steel conveys a sense of the intelligence Nick used to c
Edelman's simple, yet clear message makes it easy to talk about a topic that often times is seen as taboo or uncomfortable. Hers is a point of view worth your attention. Doing drugs like a rock star does not make one a rock star.. Junior Stock: Drag Racing The Family Sedan is well worth the trip down memory lane (and a trip to your local bookstore if you don't buy it here). I'm afraid the medical community will not endorse his findings because the insurance and pharmaceutical companies will go broke. While acupuncture was very helpful, my long-term cure came from Dr. Paul was the famous one; Betty was the help-meet, who raised the kids and made life outside the classroom "easier" for him. My back took the brunt of what my mind wasn't fully able/ready to accept. I was so dissatisfied with the house plans I saw that I decided to just design the house myself using library books and determination. It is here that I think this book struggles. I wish I had passed on this one.. At times the r
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