I was just wondering if anyone has read the novel Addie Pray and if it is revealed that she is Moses' daughter. I know it was assumed by Addie although she kept on asking Moses, but do we know for sure ? I was just wondering if there was any more catharsis in the novel than in the movie.
FILM -the most expensive mistress that anyone can have...a love you never cure yourself of -Welles
In the beginning of the novel, Addie says that any one of three (I think three) men could have been her biological father, but Moses came to get her after her mother passed and they've been together ever since. It's not really an issue in the book. Addie and Moses alternately act as child, parent, and business partners to each other; the book gives the impression that Addie is fine with that, and doesn't need to know that Moses is her biological father. She just needs to know that he loves her, which she does. In the book, Moses does not threaten/start to leave Addie; after the "grandmother"'s death, they head off again together, to keep perpetuating cons.
(I hope that answer makes sense. I've only seen part of the movie, so I'm not sure of all the ways the book and movie may differ. Good book, though: I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the time period or subject matter.)
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