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Death Drive: There Are No Accidents
By (author) Stephen Bayley
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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. The 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.
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Publisher | Circa Press
Published date | 23 Feb 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 210 x 160 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9114-2250-1
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BISAC | photography / photojournalism
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Carlo Rovelli
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224 pages
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
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Carlo Rovelli
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208 pages
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