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Roadwork

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What happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder—and then some.

Bart Dawes is standing in the way of progress. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works—and right over his home. The house he has lived in for twenty years, where he has made love with his wife, played with his son. They want to tear it down, leveling his memories and destroying his past. But before the city paves over that part of Dawes' life, he's got one more party to throw—and it'll be a blast.

Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bart Dawes has spent 20 years working in a local laundry, struggling to get by and provide for his family. He's always been a dedicated worker, wanting nothing more than to live a quiet life in a world that seems dead-set on ensuring that he doesn't. But when a new highway extension is scheduled to wind its way straight through his very existence, Dawes takes matters into his own hands and, in doing so, loses everything he's ever held sacred. Narrator G. Valmont Thomas struggles to bring life to this introverted character. Thomas's narration is full of one-dimensional emotional responses and indefinable shifts in tone that confound rather than compel. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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  • Text Difficulty:9-12

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