As Richard Bachman1981
Roadwork
Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Barton Dawes, a middle-aged man grieving his son's death, refuses to move when a highway extension project threatens to demolish both his home and his workplace. His resistance escalates from passive to violently self-destructive.
Did You Know?
- •King has called this his least favorite of the Bachman novels
- •One of King's most realistic and least supernatural works
- •Explores the theme of a man who simply stops coping
- •Written in 1973-74, between Carrie and Salem's Lot
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