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

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2026

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming.

But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth impish playwrights, and the boyos at Heeber Finn's pub. In a land where myth is reality, poetry is plentiful, and life's misfortunes are always cause for celebration, Green Shadows, White Whale is the grandest tour of Ireland you'll ever experience -- with the irrepressible Ray Bradbury as your enthusiastic guide.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451The Martian ChroniclesThe Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 09, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Olivia on April 08, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Joanna on January 15, 2020

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