A Thousand and One Nights
Twenty-two-year-old Karla is thrilled to be hired as an entertainer on the Sound of Music cruise ship — where the rum punch is 80 percent Kool-Aid, the ice sculp- tures are plastic, and her fake it till you make it M.O. seems adventuresome. Karla is less thrilled when her new boyfriend, Jack, suggests that they form a singing duo on land, but by now faking enthusiasm has become a way of life. She and Jack buy backing tracks, crib lyrics from the radio, and embark on a not-as-glamorous-as-it-should-be career performing in the luxury hotel bars of the Middle East and China. But after a thousand and one nights on the road, Karla and Jack find themselves struggling to keep their act — both personal and professional — together. Funny, fast-paced, and incisive, A Thousand and One Nights captures the performances, large and small, we use to make it through life.
- Author
- Lara Tupper
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- Harvest Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780156030922
- Release date
- 2006
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