# Asylum

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- Book: [Asylum](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-alexis/asylum) ([Asylum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-alexis/asylum.md))
- Authors: [André Alexis](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-alexis)
- Publisher: emblem_editions
- ISBN: 978-07-7100-670-8
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2009-04-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...