An edition of Roadwork (1981)

Roadwork

A Novel of the First Energy Crisis

1st NEL paperback edition

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An edition of Roadwork (1981)

Roadwork

A Novel of the First Energy Crisis

1st NEL paperback edition

by

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

An unlikely customer to be buying such very heavy-duty weaponry: .460 Weatherbee rifle and .44 Magnum handgun. Not a man who seemed to know much about guns. Friendly, middle-aged, credit good and manner unassuming.

A man who had worked hard and made something of a success of it. Had married and made a success of that in the quiet way of so many marriages. Had friends, neighbors, an unsmart but decent home. A family man and well liked.

A man who knew he did not deserve what was being done to him: the serried ranks of City Hall, the corporate wheeler-dealers, the officials and politicos, threatening, without concern or understanding, to destroy everything he had achieved, lived for and loved.

A man who had decided to do something quite extraordinary. Something so publicly insane and violent that he would be noticed.

Because in the end it is always death and destruction that make the headlines.
--back cover

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New English Library
Language
English
Pages
273

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Subjects
brain cancer, middle management, organized crime, Molotov cocktails, eminent domain, hunting rifles, Suspense, Fiction, roads, design and construction, American horror tales, horror fiction, horror, man-on-the-street news interviews, revolvers, American literature, Cuentos de terror, Loss (Psychology), Roads, Design and construction, Homeless persons, Violence, Anger, Perte (Psychologie), Romans, nouvelles, Routes, Conception et construction, Sans-abri, Fiction, general, Fiction, horror
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Andrea, Alan, Andy, Bea, Belly, Bill, Cindy, Duncan, Gayle, Hank, Jeff, Phyllis, Ray, Rhonda, Sharon, Sylvia, Tina, Nicholas Adams, Nicholas Frederick Adams, John Agar, Albert, Dave Albert, Hank Albert, Ralph Albertson, Ben Alexander, Arlin, Jack Barry, David Ben-Gurion, Humphrey Bogart, Richard Boone, Malcolm Boyd, James Brolin, Luigi Bronticelli, Jimmy Cagney, Jean Calloway, Lester Calloway, Kitty Carlisle, Meg Carter, Dick Cavett, Henry Chalmers, Wilt Chamberlain, John Chancellor, Julia Child, Andy Cocker, Broderick Crawford, Walter Cronkite, Bill Cullen, Arlene Dahl, Dankman, Darby, Gary Davis, George Barton Dawes, Charles Frederick Dawes, Fred Dawes, Mary Dawes, Ralph Dawes, Olivia DeHaviland, Andy Devine, Ethel Diment, Phil Drake, Clint Eastwood, T.S. Elliot, Hugh Fednach, Phillip T. Fenner, Gracie Floyd, Dr. Fontain, Charles Fort, Ethel Gibbs, Jack Gordon, Tom Granger, Merv Griffin, H. Rider Haggard, Walter Hamner, Paul Harvey, Ellen Hobart, Jack Hobart, Linda Hobart, Victoria Holt, Winslow Homer, Bob Hope, Tina Howard, Jackson, Dick Jackson, Mick Jagger, David Janssen, Elton John, Harry Jones, Betty Keeson, Dick Keller, Robert Kennedy, Henry King, Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Virginia Knauer, Spider John Koerner, Francis Lane, Alicia Lang, Tony Lang, Art Linkletter, Guy Lombardo, H.P. Lovecraft, Gisele MacKenzie, Lester Maddox, Guy Madison, Salvatore Magliore, Jock Mahoney, Pete Mansey, Hal March, Roberta Mason, Sharon Mason, Vincent Mason, Ray Millard, Marty Milner, Patrick J. Monohan, Garry Moore, Donald P. Naish, Jack Narz, Paul Newman, Richard Nixon, Carla Ordner, Dos Passos, Tom Paxton, Richard Petty, Mr. Piazzi, Steve Pollack, Francis Gary Powers, Bob Preston, Janet Preston, Gordon Pym, Ellery Queen, Quinn, Dave Radner, Michael Rennie, Muriel Reston, Mrs. Ricker, Ridpath, Van Ronk, Hank Rucker, Tom Rush, Soupy Sales, Joanne St. Clare, Bill Stouffer, Ron Stone, Harold Swinnerton, Harvey Swinnerton, Don Tarkington, Ray Tarkington, Ralph Tremont, Walter Truman, Forest Tucker, Donna Upshaw, Don Upslinger, Wilbur Upslinger, Max Von Sydow, Kurt Bonnegut, Arnie Walker, Corey Everett Walker, Tina Wallace, Peter Wasserman, Marcus Welbey, Tom Wicker, Richard Widmark, Bud Wilkenson, Victor Winterburger, Mrs. Young, Dr. Younger
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United States
Times
1973, 1972, 1974
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Sevenoaks, Kent

Edition Notes

Originally published, New York , New American Library, 1981.
UK

Copyright Date
1981

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3503.A/

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
273p. ;
Number of pages
273

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15049266M
Internet Archive
roadworknoveloff00bach
ISBN 10
0450055663
ISBN 13
9780450055669
OCLC/WorldCat
12523693
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0450055663
Library Thing
35821
Goodreads
3523533

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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