Addie Pray (1971) is a novel by Joe David Brown. It was an inspiration for the film Moon Paper (1973) directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Shortly after the film was released, the novel was re-titled Paper Moon to honor the film.
The novel is narrated by Addie, an orphan girl, who travels confidently Moses man "Long Boy" Pray in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression. Addie states at the beginning of the novel that Long Boy may or may not be his father; she said that her late mother was the "wildest" girl in her town, and Long Boy was one of three possibilities of her father. Their character was set up in Alabama, and the storyline then took them to other southern states around Memphis. The film Paper Moon retains this character and much of their action, but moves the story to Kansas.
The second part of the novel is much different from the movie. In the novels, Addie and Moses meet and study the class and sophistication of the older fraudster, and begin dropping fake letters promising great results in silver mines to attract greedy victims. In the last third of the novel, Addie is more directly involved in fraud, posing as an old granddaughter who has long been very rich.
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- Addie Pray , Simon & amp; Schuster, 1971. ISBNÃ, 978-0-671-20962-9
- Paper Moon: A Novel , Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002. ISBNÃ, 978-1-56858-230-6
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