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Joseph Hurka

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Born

Beloit, Wisconsin, The United States

Website

http://www.josephhurka.com/

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Andre Dubus, Gina Berriault, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Ondaatje, Alice ...more

Member Since

June 2012

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Joseph Hurka attended Bradford College, in Bradford, Massachusetts, where he became a teaching assistant to the short story master, Andre Dubus. Dubus sent Hurka to the University of Iowa, where he earned an MFA in creative writing. Hurka'a short stories have been published in numerous literary quarterlies, including Ploughshares, Dos Passos Review, and Agni. A book of his collected stories is forthcoming.
In 1993, Hurka traveled to the Czech Republic to walk in the footsteps of his father, Josef, a Czech Resistance fighter during Nazi and communist times. The result was FIELDS OF LIGHT: A SON REMEMBERS HIS HEROIC FATHER, which won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award; a subsequent novel, BEFORE, also related to Hurka's discovery of his Czech ro ...more

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	Fields of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father (Pushcart Editors' Book Award) 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before: A Novel 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Invisible Palm of God 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graceful Lies 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Winter 1992-93 Guest-Edited by Marie Howe and Christopher Tilghman by Joseph Hurka (Goodreads Author), Jane Buchbinder, Nick Flynn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fields of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father by Joseph Hurka (2003-03-04) by Joseph Hurka (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars