Road Work is a novel by Richard Bachman, also known as Stephen King. Richard Bachman is a pen name for Stephen King, considered by many to be the master of the horror genre. ... Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his highly successful horror novels. ...

The story takes place in an un-named New England city in the 1970's. Barton George Dawes, grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, is driven off the deep end when he finds that both his home and his business are going to be condemned to make way for the construction of a new interstate highway.

The novel is regarded as the weakest of King's novels written under the Bachman pennant by many - including, it would appear, King himself. In the introduction to the novel in the collection The Bachman Books King states his disappointment with the work and that a lot of the novel's seemingly melodramatic touches were attempts by him to come to terms with his own mother's death around the time of writing. King states that he was in two minds about reprinting it but decided to in the end in order to give readers an insight into his personality at the time. The Bachman Books is a collection of novels by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. ...

Oddly enough, in the introduction to the second edition of the Bachman Books (entitled "The Importance of Being Bachman") King referred to Road Work as his favorite among the Bachman books.