Foxy-Faced
John Bayley, 29 September 1988
Something to hold onto: Autobiographical Sketches
by Richard Cobb.
Murray, 168 pp., £12.95, September 1988,0 7195 4587 0 Show More
by Richard Cobb.
Murray, 168 pp., £12.95, September 1988,
“... Frank Kermode’s lively little book History and Value, and I thought of him again while enjoying Richard Cobb’s Something to hold onto, whose title would itself have been greeted with fellow-feeling by Bagshaw. Anthony Powell’s character is fascinated by things for their own sake, an attitude not common among either believers or men of ... ”