Roadwork
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2016
400 pages
978-1-5011-4133-1 (ISBN)
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Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. ?Under any name King mesmerizes the reader? (Chicago Sun-Times).
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.?
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.?
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Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Part One: November
- November 20, 1973
- November 21, 1973
- November 22, 1973
- November 23, 1973
- November 25, 1973
- November 26, 1973
- November 27, 1973
- November 28, 1973
- Part Two: December
- December 5, 1973
- December 6, 1973
- December 7, 1973
- December 8, 1973
- December 9, 1973
- December 10, 1973
- December 12, 1973
- December 17, 1973
- December 18-19, 1973
- December 19, 1973
- December 21, 1973
- December 24, 1973
- December 25, 1973
- December 26, 1973
- December 31, 1973
- Part Three: January
- January 5, 1974
- January 7, 1974
- January 8, 1974
- January 9, 1974
- January 10, 1974
- January 11, 1974
- January 12, 1974
- January 13, 1974
- January 14, 1974
- January 15, 1974
- January 16, 1974
- January 17, 1974
- January 18, 1974
- January 19, 1974
- January 20, 1974
- Stoptime, January 20, 1974
- January 20, 1974
- Epilogue
- About the Author
- Copyright
