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On the Invisible Palm of God

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph HurkaPublish date:2025-06-10Pages:274
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vine Leaves PressISBN-13:9783988321534ISBN-10:3988321532UPC:9783988321534Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Educators, Literary FiguresSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCMQTM01QC

"Renders with grace and tenderness the often unconscious need and yearning a young person has for an authentic teacher... a beautiful and deeply moving memoir." Andre Dubus III

In 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.

In 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.

ON THE INVISIBLE PALM OF GOD is about an enduring friendship, and the hidden resilience of the human spirit that resides within all of us.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Vine Leaves PressISBN-13:9783988321534ISBN-10:3988321532UPC:9783988321534Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Educators, Literary FiguresSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCMQTM01QC
Hurka, Joseph: - Joseph Hurka is the author of the memoir, Fields Of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father, a winner of the Pushcart Editors' Book Award. His short fiction and memoir writing have been featured in numerous literary journals, and in the collection, Graceful Lies. He has also written for Journeys Home, a National Geographic Books travel publication. He lives in southern New Hampshire. Visit www.josephhurka.com.
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