Paper moon

Joe David Brown

Original title: Addie Pray

Also published as: Addie Pray

earliest edition we have, 1971 Simon and Schuster, 1971 313 pages

Thorndike Press large print Perennial Bestsellers series

Addie Pray (1971) is a novel by Joe David Brown. It was the basis for the movie Paper Moon (1973) directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The novel was re-printed in 2002 as a paperback with the title Paper Moon: A Novel. The novel is narrated by Addie, an orphaned girl, who travels with confidence man "Long Boy" Moses Pray in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression. Their travels are mainly in the State of Alabama, but...

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Editions we hold

Paper moon edition · 2002 · Thorndike Press · 507 pages
Paper moon edition · 2002 · Four Walls Eight Windows · 308 pages
Paper Moon paperback · 1973 · Signet · 9780451054180
Paper Moon edition · 1973 · Signet · 9780451099402
Paper Moon paperback · 1973 · Signet · 9780451064097
Paper moon hardcover · 1973 · Coronet · 287 pages · 9780340178621
Paper Moon paperback · 1973 · Signet · 9780451058225
Addie Pray edition · 1972 · Hodder and Stoughton · 313 pages
Addie Pray edition · 1971 · Simon and Schuster · 313 pages
Paper Moon edition · 1971 · G. K. Hall · 529 pages

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