A Thousand and One Nights

by Lara Tupper and Lara Tupper

Book Overview

Elle.com described this debut novel as "an alternately hilarious and poignant look at the unsettled state of one woman trying to make it outside the socially sanctioned college-office-marriage... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161187789X
• ISBN13: 9781611877892
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

There's no biz like show biz!!

What a terrific ride through the back-stage of entertainment and show biz! The bright light view of the ship's lounges and bars provide a clear and accurate view of entertainment on the high seas. My mother was a lounge musician around clubs and also with larger venues involving all girl revue shows and acts in the summer world of state and county fairs. Lara Tupper's novel brought to me the poignancy and weariness we experienced as the season wore on. The stale, demanding, hopeful people who inhabit this world all show up here. What a great capture of the thrill and despair of entertaining and living in a world of make-up and costumes. The romances, both professional and personal kept me quietly cheering for the characters to succeed in situations where heartbreak or even loss of desire can smother all things beautiful and promising. I loved this story so much that I hated to see it end. I want to go back and discover there are more pages and chapters to embrace me. I look forward to more from Tupper. Write on!

A Thousand And One Nights

Karla seems to have it all: youth,beauty,talent, a glamorous career abroad and love. But, all is not as it appears as Ms. Tupper provides us with a personal and moving account of the seedier side of the entertainment business and the denial of the decline of a relationship.

A Thousand and One Nights

What a great read! Exotic locales provide the perfect backdrop for an in depth look at the joys and heartbreaks of love, work and the itinerant life of a young "duo". Ms. Tupper's detailed account of Karla's life abroad will resonate with anyone who's ever been an outsider struggling to appreciate and fit in to the culture around them. A terrific first novel; I look forward to the next one.

A Thousand and One Nights

I Love this novel! Brilliant narrative. Ms Tupper offers a very sensative treatment of human relationships. Funny, Wry, Insightful and Sad. I cheered when the singer found her voice! An engaging journey from beginning to end. Perfectly balanced like a high-born California Pinot Noir...at first loud, and then soft. Brava La Tupper!

A Thousand and One Nights

One of the best novels I've read in years. I picked it up and didn't close the cover until I was finished - at 3:30 a.m.! Tupper provides a fascinating, insider's look into the world of the traveling lounge singer. Her engaging writing style had me hooked immediately. She's one of those writers whose next novel you can't wait for. A must read!