Collections: Travel & Adventure, Fiction
Genre: FICTION > Historical
The Shield That Fell from Heaven
William Kerr
Role: Author
Recipient of the KIRKUS STAR. Named Kirkus Reviews’ Best of 2011.
A French journalist encounters the American Civil War—and something even stranger—in 1861 Kentucky. Edouard de Grimouville, a supercilious French stringer for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, travels to the town of Somerset, Kentucky, on the eve of the Civil War—a conflict in which the neutral state is coveted by both sides. In The Shield That Fell from Heaven, William Kerr gives us a delightfully playful cross-genre novel whose science fiction is every bit as enjoyable as its historical fiction.
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