Roadwork
Roadwork is one more novel written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It may seem that the Bachman books have something more dark and ominous in comparison with the popular works of King. It is unknown whether it is some kind of the trick for convincing a reader that the novel is written by another person with the mind of King or this work is not clear.
Roadwork tells the story about a man who decides to stop progress. This progress is getting into his home and work as a new highway system. Bart Dawes, a name of this hero, decides to buy a gun and then due to the voices in his head he finds a company. This state of his mind occurs after the death of the son Charlie. Charlie has died of brain tumor and surgeons were not able to help him. The mind of Bart slowly goes down and he waits for some push to the total desperation. And this will be the roadwork that destroys the physical history.
The most works written by King have the subject of the loneliness and desperation while works written under the pseudonym Bachman deal with the desperation. It is strange but the novel Desperation is associated with The Regulators.
And in this novel Bart Dawes is taken by the madness and desperation. He struggles with the roadwork progress which will get into his memories. He cannot see his home because all reminds him about his son which will be replaced with asphalt and speeding vehicles. In other words these events make Bart lose his son again and again.
As other books written by Richard Bachman such as Rage, The Long Walk and The Running Man Roadwork contains no supernatural elements. It describes only the madness of the character. The ending of this story is not happy and some readers will understand it from the first page. Roadwork is one of the best works of the author and it worth reading it.
