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The Other Alexander, book one in The Bow of Heaven series has won the 2011 Gold Award for Historical Fiction presented by eLit Book Awards.
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Andrew Levkoff grew up on Long Island, New York, got a BA in English from Stanford, then put that hard-earned degree to dubious use in the family packaging business. After a decade of trying to convince himself to think 'inside' the box (lots of them), he fled to Vermont where he attempted to regain his sanity by chopping wood and shoveling snow off his roof for 8 years. Like a fine cocktail, he was by then thoroughly chilled; what could be better after this than n...more


I have been remiss, waiting far too long to post an entry to this blog, but I hope I can be forgiven.

...Since the publication of A Mixture of Madness last December, I have had a little difficulty striking the flint under the tinder of book three in The Bow of Heaven trilogy. ... For one thing, it's a word whose final "s" is almost always inextricably wrapped about the "o" in the phrase "of lif... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.17 · 48 ratings · 27 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
The Other Alexander (The Bo...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
A Mixture of Madness (The B...
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012

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It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature.Andrew Levkoff
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There is no such thing as unrequited love; the phrase ought to be stricken from the lexicon. Love is a thing shared, an intertwining of essential separateness into something not quite alone. There is nothing like it under the heavens. Like bread, it will not be made with flour or water alone; the recipe requires both. Guarding each other’s vulnerability provides the yeast that makes it rise, and salt from the tears that caring brings lends the finishing touch.Andrew Levkoff
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“He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.”
Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?”
Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.”
Andrew Levkoff, The Other Alexander

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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
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“Live each day as if it were your last, for one day, you're sure to be right.”
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“Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of “if only’s” leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one’s final iteration of the excuse became one’s final utterance, and one expired.”
Andrew Levkoff, The Other Alexander

“One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.”
Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“One can get past just about anything, given enough time, even when one shouldn’t.”
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