{"product_id":"sex-death-book-tymchak-ivor-9781916016514","title":"Sex \u0026 Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gardener reaps a whirlwind from the wings of a butterfly. The author Stan Barstow explains why he never left Wakefield. A group of data analysts embrace religion. An artistic genius performs a miracle on a hard-hearted Pope. A motivational speaker takes her motivation one step too far. Hunters become the hunted when their African adventure takes a turn for the worse. A young boy makes plans to conquer time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are just a few of the scenarios explored in the twenty-four stories of this book. Each story describes the universal from the particular and each story carries a payload of considerable power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex \u0026amp; Death and Other Stories, plays with the unsayable. It ventures into territory many people would rather not find themselves. It explores the human condition in a way that slips under the radar of pretence and affectation. The characters in the stories are recognisably human: flawed, damaged, greedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories will stay with you long after you've put down the book -- you'll laugh, you'll cry, maybe shout with indignation but the one thing you'll never be, is bored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvor Tymchak is an outsider. He was born to Ukrainian parents in a northern town in England and went to various schools that tried to inculcate him into a particular way of thinking. He rejected their indoctrination and went to art school in Liverpool, Huddersfield, Portsmouth and Sheffield where he learned that nothing in life is as it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis career spans film making, rock music, strip cartoons, caricaturing, stand up comedy, presenting and now, writing. He still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642430562577,"sku":"GOR013494148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055164227857,"sku":"NIN9781916016514","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52147460440337,"sku":"NLS9781916016514","price":18.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1916016510.jpg?v=1751449974","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/sex-death-book-tymchak-ivor-9781916016514","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}