Roadwork
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Paperback
Published: 1999-06-01
ISBN: 0451197879
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: How much can you take away from someone before they snap?
Summary: 5 Stars
Story:
Barton Dawes was a normal man working in his laundry mat. He had a loving wife and a life he was happy with. Until the day came that he found that his house and his business was going to be demolished in the name of progress. His home was to become the site of a new interstate. On that day Bart snapped. This is the story of how Bart falls and what he finds out about himself, his life, and his world on the way down...
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To start off this book is *dark* it almost reminded me of another book called "The edge of human" by K.W.Jeeter. When you glance up from reading the sun doesn't seem quite as bright as it was before you started. This does as some of the other reviews on this page seem to be more of a main stream book than other King books,no supernatural forces or evil beings just one man self destructing. In between bouts of multiple personality arguements, dark depression and drug/alchol binges dawes finds his self looking at his life clearly for the first time. Most of the book deals with his discovery that he never dealt with the death of his son, he just went on auto-piolt for x amount of years and its not really the road work that set him on his path its that he was desperatly/painfully angry that his son was taken away from him and with the coming of the road he could no longer coast along in his own little world. Even as Dawes takes the final steps the man that he was still emerges here and there as with Olivia and the Arms dealer, a little light in the overwhelming darkness. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes thier horror set in the real world, with nary a boogeyman insight and also of course anyone who likes Steven King no matter what name he is writing under. m.a.c
Summary of Roadwork
#1 bestselling master of suspense...They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.
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