David discovered incidentally at fifteen he was good at drawing. His father, who would have preferred to be an architect as crane operator, does everything for his son "exploits" that gift fallen from heaven. It will even encourage the Reno Mayor (Nevada) to build a school dedicated to the arts, including his son will obviously be the first and youngest student. In this Academy, David is caught in the crossfire, specifically two teachers with radically opposed artistic tastes. The Old Maestro Priviletti, Italian, swears by the classic and made David his darling while the Modern Jonathan Deems says "the Pope" considers that the drawing which excels David is not the art, which he begins (or ends?) with the urinal of Marcel Duchamp. The school logically becomes a permanent battleground between the two men and students who support them, David is now a genius, sometimes scapegoat and martyr of the other two extremes that do not attract. .. What attracts him, however, and he will think only that, it's Rocio Mendes, a sumptuous Mexican who lands a beautiful - really beautiful - day at the Academy. David does manage to get noticed her, or - let's be crazy - to make love? There among the young hero Chris Donner, a something surprisingly skull and pure as the assurance of a candor that nothing can stop and perfectly illustrated the cover of the book, asphalt that Cutting right - straight - in the American desert. It was on this road that David will become a man, gathering in passing the paternal inheritance. Writing also to the point, no frills, in one go.
