{"product_id":"death-drive-there-are-no-accidents-9781911422501","title":"Death Drive: There Are No Accidents","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stephen Bayley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Circa\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Circa\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Photoessays \u0026amp; Documentaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and cultural modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends in catastrophe, these same talismanic qualities acquire an extra dimension. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath Drive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of 24 celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004. The author concludes by confronting the imminent demise of the car itself.","brand":"Circa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47772917661847,"sku":"9781911422501","price":2064.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781911422501.webp?v=1777976639","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/death-drive-there-are-no-accidents-9781911422501","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}