Author | Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) |
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Language | English |
Genre | Psychological Thriller |
Publisher | Signet Books |
Publication date | March 3, 1981 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 274 |
ISBN | 978-0-451-09668-5 |
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.[1] The story takes place in an unnamed city of the Midwestern United States 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. A film adaptation of the novel was announced in August 2019, with Pablo Trapero as director and Andy Muschietti (director of It and It Chapter Two) and Barbara Muschietti as producers.[2]