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Roadwork: from No. 1 bestseller Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

Stephen King

Richard Bachman

'Under any name King mesmerizes the reader' Chicago Sun-Times

It's all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city's Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart's existence - whether it's about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life.

As a result, something's been happening inside Bart's head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn't prepared for . . .

As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart's neighbourhood, he's not about to give everything up without a fight. As a matter of fact, he's ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him.

  • Classification : Short Stories
  • Pub Date : OCT 8, 2026
  • Imprint : Hodder & Stoughton
  • Page Extent : 368
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781399702461
  • Price : INR 599
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Stephen King

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His titles include Firestarter, Misery and The Talisman (co-written with Peter Straub).

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, 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 Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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Richard Bachman

Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time' by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003 he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife the novelist Tabitha King for most of the year in Maine USA.

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