The Joy-Ride and After was A.L. Barker's third collection of
shorter pieces, first published in 1963. It offers three novellas,
linked by certain recurrent characters and by their variations on
the themes of loneliness and insecurity. The first tells of what
has led to a young garage-hand 'borrowing' his employer's car, and
of the disastrous consequences that ensue. In the second, a
betrayed wife loses her memory after an accident, and finds herself
on a barge with an old reprobate. The third concerns the
tribulations of a canteen manager who has an inscrutable boss and
an extravagant wife. Whether they live in slum tenement or suburban
semi-detached, these 'ordinary' people become alive and phenomenal
to us through the force and sympathy of Barker's imagination.
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