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

In 1953 Ray Bradbury joined film director John Huston in Ireland to write the screenplay for Moby Dick. Bradbury's seven-month sojourn and his complicated relationship with Huston form the basis of this wonderful novel of a green screenwriter coming to Ireland to confront a great director and a mythical beast and, in the bargain, discovering the secrets of the Irish.