Same Kind of Different as Me Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B0016BXEQY | Format: EPUB
Same Kind of Different as Me Description
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery...
An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel...
A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream...
A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it...
It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana and in an East Texas honky-tonk - and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda, an upscale New York gallery, a downtown dumpster, and a Texas ranch.
Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 3 hours and 28 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Abridged
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: March 17, 2008
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0016BXEQY
At a recent conference I met a gentleman who happens to edit one of those airline magazines that always competes with your legroom in an airplane. A short time ago he sent me an email and asked if I had heard of a book called Same Kind of Different as Me and recommended that I read it. He seemed like a good enough guy and the book had a great cover, so I went ahead and ordered it sight unseen (or nearly so). And what a book it turned out to be.
Same Kind of Different as Me, a book that is factual but could just as easily be fiction, tells the unlikely story of the unlikeliest of friends--Ron Hall and Denver Moore. Told in two voices, the book alternates between telling the story from the perspective of Ron and Denver.
Ron Hall is a wealthy international art dealer who travels the world buying and selling rare and expensive works of art. He has grown rich but has also grown selfish and has grown away from his family. When Ron Hall reluctantly volunteers at a homeless shelter (at the insistence of his wife) he soon comes into contact with Denver, a man his wife is convinced is going to change the city. Denver grew up as a sharecropper in Louisiana, living a life that seemed little different from the life of his ancestors one hundreds years before. He eventually walked away from the cotton fields and found that, while life on the streets of Fort Worth was difficult, it was easier than being a sharecropper. It was here, in a homeless shelter, that the two men met, one serving food and the other being a reluctant recipient of this charity.
Chef Jim and Deborah chatted easily while I mentally balanced the ledger between pleasing my wife and contracting a terminal disease.
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