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Essential Self-Defense

A Play

Author: Adam Rapp; Introduction by the author

Essential Self-Defense

Essential Self-Defense

$16.00

About This Book

The next work for the stage from the Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp, Essential Self-Defense.

In Essential Self-Defense, disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes...

Page Count
128
On Sale
03/20/2007

Book Details

The next work for the stage from the Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp, Essential Self-Defense.

In Essential Self-Defense, disgruntled misfit 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.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780865479685

In The News

“Rapp . . . is a gifted storyteller. He makes demands on his audience, and he rewards its close attention with depth and elegance.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker

“A passionate writer making good on his early promise.” —David Cote, Time Out New York

“Few dramatists today write more pungent dialogue.” —Robert Brustein, The New Republic

“Rapp is very gifted, and, even rarer, he has something to say.” —Bruce Weber, The New York Times

“An ambitious and prodigiously talented writer.” —Charles Isherwood, Variety

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Essential Self-Defense

Essential Self-Defense

$16.00