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A first serial will appear in the Fall 2011 issue of Black
Renaissance Noire
Earl Lovelace: Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, and has
lived most of his life on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. His
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.
"Maker, destroyer, recorder, revealer: that is Earl Lovelace and
here he is at his soaring rhapsodic best. Starring two hapless
almost-beens 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 Naipauls of the
world could never have imagined it or possessed the soul to write
about it."
--Junot Díaz, author, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Earl Lovelace's genius is revealed in his capacity to consistently
write characters of complex sophistication that remain fully
believable as products of their landscape and time even as the
author conjures up riveting and often unusual circumstances in
their lives. Lovelace's characters are compelling because of the
care and profound empathy with which he explores their thinking and
their feelings.
Lovelace understand Trinidad and its people, its music, its history
and its psyche in ways that have made him one of the most important
writers to have emerged from the Caribbean in the last seventy
years. Is Just a Movie manages to combine all the elements of the
best calypso-a postmodernist sense of the world, a earthbound wit,
a capacity for complex tragedy and a haunting humanity. Lovelace
makes you want to be Trinidadian."
--Kwame Dawes, Distinguished Poet in Residence at the University of
South Carolina
"Lovelace has written an comic masterpiece. The dazzle of talent on
display in this his latest
novel is in its own way absurd. Yes, some writers do have it
all."
--Colin Channer, author, Waiting in Vain
"The publication of a new novel by Earl Lovelace is an event to
celebrate. This satire, while biting, is tempered with a pathos and
humor which directs us to the fundamental humanity we have come to
recognize in all of Lovelace's writing."
--Lawrence Scott, author, Night Calypso
"More than any other writer, the prose of Earl Lovelace is 'Trini
to the bone.' And like the famed Cascadu river fish after which the
village in Is Just a Movie is named, once its sweet flesh is
tasted, the reader is destined to return to its shores."
--Robert Antoni, author of Divina Trace and Carnival
"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
"Maker, destroyer, recorder, revealer: that is Earl Lovelace and
here he is at his soaring rhapsodic best. Starring two hapless
almost-beens 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 Naipauls of the
world could never have imagined it or possessed the soul to write
about it."
--Junot Díaz, author, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Earl Lovelace's genius is revealed in his capacity to consistently
write characters of complex sophistication that remain fully
believable as products of their landscape and time even as the
author conjures up riveting and often unusual circumstances in
their lives. Lovelace's characters are compelling because of the
care and profound empathy with which he explores their thinking and
their feelings.
Lovelace understand Trinidad and its people, its music, its history
and its psyche in ways that have made him one of the most important
writers to have emerged from the Caribbean in the last seventy
years. Is Just a Movie manages to combine all the elements of the
best calypso-a postmodernist sense of the world, a earthbound wit,
a capacity for complex tragedy and a haunting humanity. Lovelace
makes you want to be Trinidadian."
--Kwame Dawes, Distinguished Poet in Residence at the University of
South Carolina
"Lovelace has written an comic masterpiece. The dazzle of talent on
display in this his latest
novel is in its own way absurd. Yes, some writers do have it
all."
--Colin Channer, author, Waiting in Vain
"The publication of a new novel by Earl Lovelace is an event to
celebrate. This satire, while biting, is tempered with a pathos and
humor which directs us to the fundamental humanity we have come to
recognize in all of Lovelace's writing."
--Lawrence Scott, author, Night Calypso
"More than any other writer, the prose of Earl Lovelace is 'Trini
to the bone.' And like the famed Cascadu river fish after which the
village in Is Just a Movie is named, once its sweet flesh is
tasted, the reader is destined to return to its shores."
--Robert Antoni, author of Divina Trace and Carnival
"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
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