Green Shadows, White Whale

This story tells about the Irish lives of the local people, about the formidable American genius who commandeered their island as his own, and about the young journeyman writer who discovered there the range of his own imagination. In 1953 Ray Bradbury was summoned to Ireland to write the screenplay of "Moby Dick" for John Huston. This is the basis for a novel - the adventures of a green screenwriter coming to Ireland to confront a great director and a mythical beast, as well as discovering the humour of the Irish.