{"title":"Joseph Hurka","description":"Joseph Hurka earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has published his fiction in numerous literary quarterlies. His first book, the memoir, FIELDS OF LIGHT: A SON REMEMBERS HIS HEROIC FATHER, won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award, and a subsequent novel, BEFORE, was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. Hurka currently teaches writing at Tufts University, where he is a Phi Beta Kappa Poet, and in the graduate program at Emerson College. He lives in southern New Hampshire.","products":[{"product_id":"fields-of-light-a-son-remembers-his-heroic-father-paperback","title":"Fields of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pushcart Editors' Book Award. Publishers Weekly starred review. Anniversary Edition. Sixteen photographs. In 1993, Joseph Hurka traveled to Prague to walk in the footsteps of his father, a Czech resistance fighter and American spy. The result, FIELDS OF LIGHT: A SON REMEMBERS HIS HEROIC FATHER, won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award (nominated by Andre Dubus), and is now reissued in an anniversary paperback edition. As the son walks through history, he learns that his father, Josef, came of age fighting the Nazis, and later worked in the Underground against the Communist government of Czechoslovakia. He describes in detail--here for the first time--the rescue of the great Czech statesman Dr. Josef Macek and his wife, Bela, on one dangerous night in December, 1949. FIELDS OF LIGHT is also a story of modern Prague and the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Hurka takes us with him into the heart of Prague, to Prague Castle--home of ancient kings--and into the \"Old Town,\" where Kafka lived and Mozart once performed. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, in giving the book a starred review, has called the book \"gripping.\" BOOKLIST writes, \"It's the story of a man who fought for democracy and...the moving account of a son who finally comes to know his father.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67927013753055,"sku":"9780615817118","price":17.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/L5mB4ZxHWh9780615817118.webp?v=1791247981"},{"product_id":"on-the-invisible-palm-of-god-paperback","title":"On the Invisible Palm of God - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eRenders with grace and tenderness the often unconscious need and yearning a young person has for an authentic teacher... a beautiful and deeply moving memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e.\" Andre Dubus III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his undergraduate years, Joseph Hurka's mentor was the writer Andre Dubus, a great, large spirit of a man, today considered a twentieth-century master of the short story. Dubus opened new artistic doors for the young Hurka; he sent his student on to the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where Hurka started his career in earnest as a writer and teacher himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1986 Dubus, trying to help stranded motorists on a highway outside Boston, survived a traumatic highway accident that left him with thirty-four broken bones and an amputated leg. Hurka did his best, for the remaining twelve years of Dubus' life, to help as his mentor and friend went through a courageous fight to regain physical strength and to write again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eON THE INVISIBLE PALM OF GOD is about an enduring friendship, and the hidden resilience of the human spirit that resides within all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67978180624607,"sku":"9783988321534","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NUhnCVC2z19783988321534.webp?v=1791877954"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joseph-hurka.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}