Green Shadows, White Whales
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic novels, available as an ebook for the first time.
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.
'Let us now praise Ray Bradbury, the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction.' The Times -
'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator -
”'Bradbury is an authentic original” - Time Magazine
”'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas - with discipline” - Sunday Telegraph