by Henry Denker · FRANCE LOISIRS - PRESSES DE LA CITE · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724240405
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«L'enfant qui voulait mourir» is the psychological novel by Henry Denker, published by France Loisirs - Presses de la Cité in hardcover.
Robbie Ward, an adopted teenager who has until now been a model son, begins to suffer sudden and worrying mood swings. Robbie's parents try to understand their son's behavior and seek help before the situation becomes dangerous. The novel addresses youth mental health and a family's distress in the face of a son's crisis.
The French edition has 461 pages and was published in 1988. The original English novel, Robert, My Son, was published in 1985.
A work for readers of psychological and family fiction, especially those interested in mental health during adolescence.
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.
