3rd Bachman Book
Roadwork: A Novel of the First Energy Crisis
Publication: New York: Signet / New American Library / Times Mirror, 1981. First Edition.
Notes: Stephen King's third Bachman novel, about a man driven to extremes when his son dies, his wife leaves, his job is threatened, and his house is slated for demolition to put in a new road.
Roadwork "was written between 'Salem's Lot and The Shining and was an effort to write a straight novel...something serious... It was also an effort to make some sense of my mother's painful death the year before—a lingering cancer had taken her off inch by painful inch... I suspect Roadwork is probably the worst of [the Bachman books] simply because it tries so hard to be good and find some answers to the conundrum of human pain"—Why I Was Bachman.
[8], 247, [1:ad] pages. Signet E9668, $2.25 cover price.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with "First printing, March, 1981" and a numberline ending in 1 on the copyright page). Not quite crisp or sharp enough to be fine, but a very good to near fine copy.
Item No: #366222
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