Green Shadows, White Whale
A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland

Often misidentified as a novel (even by the author), this work does not read like one; it reads like a memoir. Bradbury himself said he wrote it after reading Katherine Hepburn's memoir of her own experiences with director John Huston, making 'The African Queen'. When this book first appeared in 199......more

This is one of those novels that you read for the sheer love of writing as a stylistic, not a narrative, craft. Bradbury plays with words in this book like James Newton Howard plays with musical notes in Peter Pan or Raya and the Last Dragon, manipulating language into ribbons and starbursts and rai......more

Ray Bradbury’s Green Shadows and White Whale is classic Ray Bradbury. It has been a lot of years since I read The Illustrated Man . In fact that particular edition. In fact, so long that it took me a few chapters to get back to a Bradbury frame of mind. Green Shadows is worth the effort. Semi-autobi......more

I studied "Moby Dick" too close for comfort in college. I also love Ireland. So my sister gave me this book that combines both topics, weirdly enough. There are like two chapters that talk about "Moby Dick", five chapters on John Huston and the crazy weirdness of Hollywood in the '50s, and all the r......more