Joy-Ride and After

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 wi...