num_pages: 4
description: Andrew Vachss's unflinching examination of evil has won him wide acclaim and a faithful readership that relishes his quirky style and grim tableaux. In Proving It, culled from his two collections Born Bad and Everybody Pays, he surveys a desolate landscape of losers. An adolescent who is shunned by his peers exacts a terrible revenge; a teenage "escort" is hired for a devious plan and used as a human shield; a terminally ill woman hires a hit man to put her out of her misery; a young man discovers the shattering truth about the identity of his sister's rapist. These 29 stories have roots in the sensational headlines of today, but Vachss makes them his own.
language: English
title: Proving It
titlecomplete: Proving It
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Publishing Mills