As If by Chance

David Lan

earliest edition we have, 2020 Faber & Faber, Limited, 2020 320 pages

"A family day at the beach. There's a song, an argument, a dash across the white sand and into the high rolling waves. We're in Cape Town and David Lan is ten years old. Cut to 1969 and, visiting London fresh out of high school, he interviews theatre luminaries Sybil Thorndike, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Nunn, Paul Schofield before heading home to join the South African army. Now it's 1999. We're at the Young Vic where Dav...

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As If by Chance edition · 2021 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571357802
As If by Chance edition · 2020 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · 9780571357796
As If by Chance edition · 2020 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571357819

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