3rd Bachman Book, UK
Roadwork: A Novel of the First Energy Crisis
Publication: London: New English Library, 1983. First Edition.
Notes: The UK edition of Stephen King's third Bachman book, a 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], 273, [1:blank], [6:ads] pages. £1.50 rear cover price.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with "First NEL Paperback Edition June 1983" on the copyright page). Near fine. With "New $4.50" pencilled on the first blank, apparently suggesting this copy was imported to the United States.
ISBN: 0450055663
Item No: #366223
Price: $400