Back الظلال الخضراء، الحوت الأبيض (رواية) Arabic La Baleine de Dublin French Կանաչ ստվերներ, սպիտակ կետ Armenian Зелёные тени, Белый Кит Russian
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| Author | Ray Bradbury |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, Soft science fiction |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 271 |
| ISBN | 0-394-57878-3 |
| OCLC | 25095626 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3503.R167 G75 1992 |
Green Shadows, White Whale is a 1992 novel by Ray Bradbury. It gives a fictionalized account of his journey to Ireland in 1953-1954 to write a screen adaptation of the novel Moby-Dick with director John Huston. Bradbury has said[where?] he wrote it after reading actress Katharine Hepburn's account of filming The African Queen with Huston in Africa. The title itself is a play on Peter Viertel's novel White Hunter, Black Heart, which is also about Huston.
Bradbury considers Green Shadows to be the culmination of thirty-five years of short stories, poems, and plays that were inspired by his stay in Ireland.[citation needed] As with most of his previous short-story collections, including The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles, many of the short stories were originally published elsewhere and modified slightly for publication in the novel.[1]