{"product_id":"leadville-9780330392631","title":"Leadville","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edward Platt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One afternoon in January 1995, as I drove along Western Avenue, I did what I had never done before: i parked the car in a side-street and walked on to the road...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLeadville\u003c\/i\u003e, Ed Platt tells the story of Western Avenue from the optimism of its construction in the 1920s to its partial demolition seventy years later. It is a tale of the city and the traffic, of suburbia and the dreams of its inhabitants, and of our senseless and all-consuming love affair with the motor car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Platt has created a drama that is not only Orwellian in its attention to what you might call the state of the nation . . . but almost Dickensian in the recording of the colour and pathos of its inhabitants' Tim Lott, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892327530647,"sku":"9780330392631","price":1187.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780330392631.webp?v=1781186486","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/leadville-9780330392631","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}