<DIV><BR>"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, <I>Is Just A Movie</I> 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 Diáz, author, <I>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</I><BR><BR><P>"<I>Is Just a Movie</I> is not just a movie, it's a poem, too."?Arundhati Roy, author, <I>The God of Small Things</I></P><BR><P>"Earl Lovelace is arguably the Caribbean's greatest living novelist. In <I>Is Just a Movie</I>, 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, <I>Makeda</I></P><BR><P>"<I>Is Just a Movie</I> confirms Lovelace as a master storyteller of the West Indies."?<I>Financial Times</I></P><BR><P>"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."?<I>Guardian</I></P><BR><P>"Funny, moving, endlessly inventive."?<I>The Times</I></P><BR><P>"Vivid prose that seems to stroll effortlessly across the page. Lovelace's loose writing is meticulously crafted but it retains its casual elegance."?<I>The Times Literary Supplement</I></P><BR><P>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, <I>Is Just a Movie</I> is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.</P><BR><P><B>Earl Lovelace</B>'s books include <I>While Gods Are Falling</I>, winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic <I>The Dragon Can't Dance</I>; and <I>Salt</I>, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For <I>Is Just a Movie</I>, he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe.</P><BR></DIV>