Death Drive

There Are No Accidents

Stephen Bayley author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Circa Press

Publishing:11th Aug '25

£20.00

This title is due to be published on 11th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Death Drive cover

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.

ISBN: 9781911422501

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages

2nd New edition