Roadwork
By Stephen King
First published 1981
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. --- Also contained in: - [The Bachman Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81591W/The_Bachman_Books_\(Rage_The_Long_Walk_Roadwork_The_Running_Man\)) - [The Bachman Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24796729W)
- Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 416
- Elsewhere
- Open Library
- Horror
- Thriller
- Crime
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