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A Novel

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An edition of Roadwork (1981)

Roadwork

A Novel

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.8 (11 ratings) ·
  • 74 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 23 Have read

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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Gallery Books
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336

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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), Homeless persons, Violence, Anger, Perte (Psychologie), Romans, nouvelles, Routes, Conception et construction, Sans-abri, Fiction, general, Fiction, horror

People

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

Places

United States

Times

1973, 1972, 1974

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Roadwork: A Novel
Dec 19, 2017, Gallery Books
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Roadwork: A Novel
2016, Pocket Books
mass market paperback in English
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Carretera maldita
2011, DeBolsillo
in Spanish
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Carretera Maldita
2008-07, DEBOLSILLO
paperback in Spanish - Primera edición
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Chantier
2002, Albin Michel
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Roadwork
1999-06, Signet
in English - 1st Signet printing (King introduction) (1)
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Roadwork
1999-06, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st printing with King introduction (1)
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Chantier
1991, J'ai Lu
in French
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Werk in uitvoering
1988, Uitgeverij Luitingh
in Dutch
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Roadwork: a novel of the first energy crisis
1983-06, New English Library
paperback in English - 1st NEL paperback edition
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Source title: Roadwork: A Novel

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PS3561.I483R33 2017

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paperback
Number of pages
336

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OL27380727M
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1501192213
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9781501192210
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1501192213

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