Paper moon
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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