Sex & Death: and Other Stories (Paperback)

<p>A 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.</p><p>These 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.</p><p>Sex &amp; 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.</p><p>These 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.</p><p>Ivor 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.</p><p>His 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.</p>