ADDIE PRAY by Joe David Brown. 313 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.95.
The heroine of this cheerful thimblerig of a novel is an eleven-year-old orphan whose mother was "the wildest girl in Marengo County, Alabama." More practical than Mama, Addie Pray takes up traveling with Long Boy Pray, one of several men who might be her father, in order to help him "do business"meaning back-country bunco jobs.
One of Long Boy's favorites is to arrive in a small town, buy up a supply of white morocco-bound Bibles and check newspaper obituaries for...
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