Alan Watts è un romanziere, sceneggiatore e drammaturgo il cui romanzo bestseller è stato insignito del Prix Printemps francese e recentemente adattato per il cinema. Watts è anche un rispettato educatore, autore di libri influenti sull'arte della scrittura che guidano i creatori nel bilanciare struttura e ispirazione. Ha fondato un laboratorio di scrittura dedicato ad approfondire le abilità degli scrittori, insegnando a una vasta gamma di persone, da autori affermati ad aspiranti narratori.
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Neil Garvin is a seventeen year old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team and as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime and his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives and begins to narrow in, Neil and his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart and set them free