Is Just A Movie

by Earl Lovelace

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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 loveĀ—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.


  • ISBN10 1608461750
  • ISBN13 9781608461752
  • Publish Date 27 March 2012 (first published 20 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Haymarket Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 362
  • Language English