An edition of Roadwork (1981)

Roadwork

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An edition of Roadwork (1981)

Roadwork

  • 3.78 ·
  • 9 Ratings
  • 67 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

Barton Dawes is standing in the way of progress when his unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works—and right over his home. The house he has lived in for twenty years and where he created loving memories with his family. Dawes isn’t the sort of man who will take an insult of this magnitude lying down. His steadfast determination to fight the inevitable course of progress drives his wife and friends away while he tries to face down the uncaring bureaucracy that has destroyed his life. But before the city paves over that part of Dawes’s life, he’s got one more party to throw—and it’ll be a blast.

What happens when one good (and angry) man fights back…and then some? This #1 national bestseller includes an introduction by Stephen King on “The Importance of Being Bachman.”
source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Roadwork/Stephen-King/9781508217329

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Cover of: Roadwork
Roadwork: A Novel
Dec 19, 2017, Gallery Books
paperback
Cover of: Roadwork
Roadwork
2016-01, Simon & Schuster Audio
Digital Audio in English
Cover of: Carretera maldita
Carretera maldita
2011, DeBolsillo
in Spanish
Cover of: Carretera Maldita
Carretera Maldita
2008-07, DEBOLSILLO
paperback in Spanish - Primera edición
Cover of: Chantier
Chantier
2002-11, Albin Michel
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Roadwork
Roadwork
1999-06, Signet, Berkley
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (King introduction) (1)
Cover of: Roadwork
Roadwork
1999-06, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st printing with King introduction (1)
Cover of: Ates ʹ yolu
Ates ʹ yolu
1995, Alt♯łn Kitaplar Yay♯łnevi
in Turkish
Cover of: Chantier
Chantier
1991, J'ai Lu
in French
Cover of: Sprengstoff
Sprengstoff
1987, Heyne
Paperback in German - 2. Auflage
Cover of: Roadwork
Roadwork: A Novel of the First Energy Crisis
1983-06, New English Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st NEL paperback edition

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Narrator
G. Valmont Thomas

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Digital Audio

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Open Library
OL26869848M
ISBN 10
1508217327
ISBN 13
9781508217329
OCLC/WorldCat
1011121403
Goodreads
28112599

Work Description

Roadwork is a thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books.

The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1972–1974. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace will be demolished to make way for an extension to an interstate highway.



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