{"product_id":"death-drive-stephen-bayley-9781911422501","title":"Death Drive","description":"Cars 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.\nThe car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive 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 Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51385932218656,"sku":"9781911422501","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781911422501_2452780.jpg?v=1774600499","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/death-drive-stephen-bayley-9781911422501","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}