{"product_id":"9781608461769","title":"Is Just a Movie: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIs Just a Movie\u003c\/i\u003e is not just a movie, it's a poem, too.\"—Arundhati Roy, author, \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Earl Lovelace is arguably the Caribbean's greatest living novelist. In \u003ci\u003eIs Just a Movie\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eMakeda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIs Just a Movie\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Lovelace as a master storyteller of the West Indies.\"—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, moving, endlessly inventive.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Vivid prose that seems to stroll effortlessly across the page. Lovelace's loose writing is meticulously crafted but it retains its casual elegance.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eIs Just a Movie\u003c\/i\u003e is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarl Lovelace\u003c\/b\u003e's books include \u003ci\u003eWhile Gods Are Falling\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic \u003ci\u003eThe Dragon Can't Dance\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For \u003ci\u003eIs Just a Movie\u003c\/i\u003e, he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129947275504,"sku":"9781608461769","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608461769_p0.jpg?v=1769902394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608461769","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}