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Asylum
[Paperback - 2009]
andre alexis
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Political Fiction
Additional Category: Humorous Fiction - Literary Fiction
Publisher: Emblem Editions | ISBN: 9780771006708 | Pages: 496
Shipping Weight: .744 | Dimensions: 6.02 x 1.17 x 8.99 inches

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Alexis’s long-awaited second novel follows his award-winning Childhood.

Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is André Alexis’s sweeping, edged-in-satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwined lives and fortunes, of politics and vain ambition, of the building of a magnificent prison, of human fallibility, of the search for refuge, of the impossibility of love, and of finding home. Whether he is taking us into the machinations of a government office or into the mysterious workings of the human heart, Alexis is always alert to the humour and the profound truth of any situation. His cast of characters is eccentric and unforgettable, all recognizable in one way or another as aspects of ourselves or people we know well. At the centre of the story, which covers almost a decade, is a visionary project to build an ideal prison, a perfect metaphor for the purest aspects of artistic ambition and for all that is great and flawed in the world.

André Alexis is a true original, one of the most talented and astute writers writing in Canada today. This dazzling novel is filled with tragedy, dry wit, intellectual grist. It is playful, linguistically accomplished, and psychologically profound. Its yearnings constitute the highest level of human concerns and pursuits. Alexis has written The Great Canadian Novel, with a twist.

About the Author

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel,Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His debut novel,Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other books includePastoral(nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize),Asylum,Beauty and Sadness,Ingrid & the Wolf,Despair and Other Stories of OttawaandLambton, Kent and Other Vistas: A Play.

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