Donny and Ursula Save the World - Softcover

Weil, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988907194 ISBN 13: 9780988907195

Publisher: Passing 4 Normal Press, 2013

Synopsis

Debut author, Sharon Weil, offers up a hilarious, sex-charged, romantic comedy adventure that’s “a fertile cross between Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut and Mr. Toad’s Wild ride.”

Can love make you brave? Hopelessly mismatched lovers, Donny and Ursula, are ignited by their mutual attraction to become unlikely heroes well beyond their imaginations or mere neurotic existences. If good sex can melt fear, and love can inspire leaps, then they’re in trouble because poor earth-loving, travel agent Ursula has never had the Big O, and cynical writer Donny’s heart is in hiding.

But, an agribusiness giant is out to own all the seeds of the world, and someone had better stop them! Could it really be these two will save the world? Find out as this story wheels and banks in eccentric glee, as love, sex, seeds and greed collide in outrageous climax. As they fumble their way to bravery, the flaws and foibles of Donny, Ursula, and their crazy rebel friends, (outlaw guerilla gardeners, belly dancing feminists, gun-crazy survivalists and mushroom messengers) are at once surprising, ridiculous, scary, and heartwarming.

The funniest book about love, sex and GMOs you’ll ever read!

About this title

About the Author

Sharon Weil is an award winning WGA screenwriter, producer and director. DONNY AND URSULA SAVE THE WORLD is her first novel, and a welcome breakout into new form. She was awarded the Women in Film, Lillian Gish Award, as writer and co- producer, for Best Children's Film in 1990 for Sweet 15, which also won an Emmy for it's director. She is a film graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to writing, Sharon has been a director, producer or editor of many film and television projects; narrative, documentary, commercials and music videos. She has directed several original theater productions, as well as written and performed her own work in one-woman shows, and shared evenings.

Review

"This is like Midsummer Night's Dream in a modern setting." - Connie Martinson Talks Books

"More orgasms per page than at Woodstock?" - Dale Bell, producer of the movie Woodstock.

"Winsome and hilarious...populated with well-drawn comic characters and filled with snappy dialogue; even a cleverly anthropomorphized Mother Earth gets in a few good zingers." - Kirkus Review

"Compelling, graphically hilarious and deeply touching." - Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum

"A most effective medicine for desperate times."  - Deena Metzger, author of Writing for Your Life and La Negra y Blanca"

Edition details

• Publisher: Passing 4 Normal Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0988907194
• ISBN 13: 9780988907195
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298