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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina: Excerpt. This will not be an easy book to write, but there is much to say, in my own words, and my son’s. And as hard as it may be to write, it’s worth doing, if it helps someone. It is hard to encapsulate a being, a very special being, a soul, a smile, a boy, a huge talent, an enormous heart, a ...
Nick Traina and Yo Angel Foundations. Steel's son, Nick Traina, died by suicide in 1997. Traina was the lead singer of San Francisco punk bands Link 80 and Knowledge. To honor his memory, Steel wrote the nonfiction book His Bright Light, about Nick's life and death.
It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death." 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.
Sep 22, 1997 · It will take a month before it is known whether a drug overdose caused the death of Danielle Steel’s 19-year-old son, a deputy coroner said Sunday. Nicholas John Steel Traina, who headed a punk ...
Feb 24, 2009 · It's hard to listen to any story that deals with the loss of a child, but Danielle Steel's memoir of her son, Nick Traina, is both tender and engrossing. In this unabridged audio version of His Bright Light, Steel leads us through Nick's battle with manic depression and her fight to help him survive. Although Steel herself narrates the ...
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Sep 8, 1998 · 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.
Oct 1, 2000 · Nick Traina was a young man who, throughout his short life, marched to the beat of his own drummer—"he was never in harmony with what was going on around him, or what other people were doing." Much of the time he was the object of a debate about whether he was a spoiled rich kid or had a significant mental illness.
