by Henry Denker · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258020962
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«L'enfant qui voulait mourir» is the novel by Henry Denker, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (316 pages, in French).
The novel follows Robbie Ward, an adopted teenager who has always been a model son, until he begins to suffer sudden and unpredictable mood swings; his parents must confront his dangerous condition and seek help before it is too late.
The original English novel, Robert, My Son, was published in 1985; this French edition is from 1987.
Henry Denker was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He began his career as a radio and television writer, and is credited as the originator and writer of what he described as the first television series ever produced, False Witness, broadcast on NBC-TV in 1939. He wrote the first script for the religious radio series The Greatest Story Ever Told, which won a special George Foster Peabody Citation in 1949. Of his 34 published novels, 17 were selected and published by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Six of his plays were produced on Broadway. Trained as a lawyer, Denker drew on his legal background throughout his prolific writing career across radio, television, theater, and fiction.
