Cobbery
Julian Barnes, 2 May 1985
Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood
by Richard Cobb.
Chatto, 161 pp., £3.95, April 1985,0 7012 1920 3 Show More
by Richard Cobb.
Chatto, 161 pp., £3.95, April 1985,
“... that he doesn’t want to read any more books that don’t begin: ‘A shot rang out.’ Richard Cobb’s second volume of autobiography, nominally about Shrewsbury and Oxford, opens with a man getting off the boat train at the Gare Saint-Lazare wielding (well, almost wielding) a blood-stained axe. The killer, an old schoolfriend of Cobb’s called ... ”