![]() ![]() King’s novels often provide an excellent social history of America from the 70s onwards, with their pop culture references, current events or even just the attitudes of the time. Though not published until 1981, this book perhaps more than any other of his is rooted firmly in a time and place. Rather, this was written at a point when things were really changing in Stephen King’s life, for better and for worse. This is not to say the style is King’s, though nobody writes quite like King does. ![]() Roadwork is King’s third Bachman book, and the first written by the author recognisably as King himself. Can you understand that? Can you try?” Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman), Roadwork But it was easier to do things than to talk about them. “… That was the first thing, the first real thing, but things had been happening in my mind before that. If only Barton Dawes had thought of this instead. The infamous Killdozer, piloted by Marvin Heemeyer. ![]()
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