In "Essential Self-Defense", disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes a job as an attack dummy in a women's self-defence class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to Sadie, the repressed bookworm mercilessly honing her skills on him. Meanwhile, alls 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.
- ISBN10 0881453722
- ISBN13 9780881453720
- Publish Date 1 May 2008 (first published 20 March 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Broadway Play Publishing Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 86
- Language English