Is Just a Movie

"Maker, destroyer, recorder, revealer: that is Earl Lovelace and here he is at his soaring rhapsodic best. Starring two hapless almost-been's in search of movie fame, "Is Just A Movie" takes us on wild loving absurdist journey to the heart of a contemporary Trinidad, a Trinidad so ravishingly al [...]
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"Maker, destroyer, recorder, revealer: that is Earl Lovelace and here he is at his soaring rhapsodic best. Starring two hapless almost-been's in search of movie fame, "Is Just A Movie" takes us on wild loving absurdist journey to the heart of a contemporary Trinidad, a Trinidad so ravishingly alive that the Naipuls of the world could never have imagined it or possessed the soul to write about it. --Junot Diaz, author, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
""Is Just a Movie" is not just a movie, it's a poem, too."--Arundhati Roy, author, "The God of Small Things"
"Earl Lovelace is arguably the Caribbean's greatest living novelist. In "Is Just a Movie," he writes at the top of his considerable literary powers, picturing the Caribbean's poor and powerless defending their ever-embattled humanity with resourcefulness and tenacity."--Randall Robinson, author, "Makeda"
""Is Just a Movie" confirms Lovelace as a master storyteller of the West Indies."--"Financial Times"
"Lovelace is bursting with things to say about this complex, heterogeneous society in the late twentieth century. This he does with a flair that at its best reaches a soaring rhapsody."--"Guardian"
"Funny, moving, endlessly inventive."--"The Times"
"Vivid prose that seems to stroll effortlessly across the page. Lovelace's loose writing is meticulously crafted but it retains its casual elegance."--"The Times Literary Supplement"
In Trinidad, in the wake of 1970's Black Power rebellion, we follow Sonnyboy, Singer King Kala, and their town's folk through experiments in music, politics, religion, and love--and in their day-to-day adventures. Humorous and serious, sad and uplifting, "Is Just a Movie" is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.
Earl Lovelace's books include "While Gods Are Falling," winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic "The Dragon Can't Dance"; and "Salt," which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For "Is Just a Movie," he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe and the 2012 OCM
Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.