Twenty-two-year-old Karla is thrilled to be hired as an entertainer aboard the MS Sound of Music, where she's soon singing with a charming Brit named Jack.  She's less than thrilled, four years later, to find she's become a lounge singer cliche as she and Jack, now a duo, crank out pop song after pop song in a luxury hotel bar in Shanghai.  Funny, fast-paced, and incisive, A Thousand and One Nights captures the performances large and small we use to get through life.  Harvest Original, Harcourt, Inc.