Title: Essential self-defense : a play /
Authors: Rapp, Adam
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Missing children Drama.; Man-woman relationships Drama
Abstract: "In Essential Self-Defense, disgruntled outcast Yul Carroll takes a job as an attack dummy in a women's self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to Sadie, the repressed bookworm mercilessly honing her skills on him. Meanwhile, all's not well on the unassuming Midwestern streets of Bloggs: with local children vanishing at an alarming rate, our hero, his lady friend, and a motley assortment of poets, butchers, and punk librarians prepare to battle the darkness on the edge of town."--BOOK JACKET.