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Green Shadows,
White Whale
This novel is a roman
a clef, a fictionalised account of Bradbury's experience working in
Ireland with John Huston in the 1950s, when Bradbury was employed to write
the screenplay for Moby Dick.
The novel is woven together from previously published short stories, but
includes a substantial amount of new material.
For more Melville
influence on Bradbury, see Leviathan
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Some parts of this
novel had previously been published in short story form:
"The Great Collision of Monday Last" (chapter 4) - Contact,
January 1958
"A Wild Night in Galway" (chapter 6) - Harper's,
August 1959
"The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place" (chapter 12) -
I Sing The Body Electric! (1969)
"The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge" (chapter 13) - First
published as "The Beggar on the Dublin Bridge", Saturday Evening Post,
June
14 1961
"The Haunting of the New" (chapter 15) - Vogue
(UK), October 1 1969
"One for His Lordship, and One for the Road" (chapter 18) -
Playboy,
January 1985
"Getting Through Sunday Somehow" (chapter 21) - First
published as "Tread Lightly to the Music", Cavalier, October 1962
"The First Night of Lent" (chapter 22) - Playboy,
March 1956
"McGillahee's Brat" (chapter 23) - The Irish
Press, March 21 1970
"Banshee" (chapter 27) - First appeared in Rod
Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine, Sep/Oct 1984
"The Cold Wind and the Warm" (chapter 28) - Harper’s,
July 1964
"The Anthem Sprinters" (chapter 29) - First published
as “The Queen’s Own Evaders”, Playboy, June 1963
Additionally, chapter
9 is fictionalised from the essay "The Hunt Wedding" - The
American Way, May 1992
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