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Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland
Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland | Ray D Bradbury
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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.
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Leftcoastzen
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Born on this day in 1920,Bradbury would be 100 !He passed away in 2012 & cut a large swath thru the literary landscape.Horror , Science Fiction , Mystery , Screenwriter. Fahrenheit 451 written in 1953 will always be a warning to those who censor or try to control knowledge & information.This book, I haven‘t read yet , is a novel ,yet grounded in some real experiences Ray had as a young man trying to write a screenplay of Moby Dick for John Huston.

ImperfectCJ I hadn't heard of this one...stacked! 4y
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MelAnn
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#QuotsyMarch18 #day15 #rain (Forgot to post last night !!! )

#Quotsy #LitsyQuoteChallenge

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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"I looked out from the deck of the Dún Laoghaire ferry and saw Ireland.

The land was green.

Not just one ordinary sort of green, but every shade and variation. Even the shadows were green, and the light that played on the Dún Laoghaire wharf and on the faces of the customs inspectors. Down into the green I stepped, an American young man, just beyond thirty, suffering two sorts of depression, lugging a typewriter and little else."

diovival I'm always happy to add another Bradbury to my list. 8y
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