He kept doing things without letting himself think about them.
An edition of Roadwork
(1981)
Roadwork
a novel of the first energy crisis
1st NEL paperback edition
by Stephen King
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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.
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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, horrorPeople
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Roadwork: a novel of the first energy crisis
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Originally published, New York , New American Library, 1981.
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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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