Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Tog… Summary
Ron Hall (author)

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Tog… Summary

Plot Summary

Same Kind of Different as Me is a non-fiction autobiographical account of two unlikely friends and published in 2006. This story is about their lives from childhood almost seventy years earlier to their attendance at the 2005 presidential inauguration. Denver Moore is born in Red River Parish, Louisiana and grows up to become a poor, illiterate homeless yet intensely spiritual black man skilled at surviving alone on the street or in jail. Ron Hall is born in Haltom City, Texas and grows up to be a rich, well-educated propertied white man skilled at succeeding in the international world of fine art. Their story is told in their own words and dialect which presents a lively, interesting dialogue between a Southern black man and white Texan getting to know each other through the persistent encouragement of Ron's wife Deborah who brings them together and then dies.

Denver writes in an iconic...

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