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Also by Kinky Friedman:

What Would Kinky Do?, July 2008
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You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think, October 2007
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The Christmas Pig, November 2006
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Texas Hold 'Em, June 2005
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THE CHRISTMAS PIG
By: Kinky Friedman

A Fable

Simon and Schuster
November 2006
On Sale: November 14, 2006
176 pages
ISBN: 1416534989
EAN: 9781416534983
Hardcover
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It's a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell.

King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year, though, the date is mere weeks away, and he still has not yet found his painter. The king decides to take a chance on a peculiar, mute boy whose artistic genius and clairvoyance are rumored throughout the kingdom. He sends three valiant, if begrudging, knights to seek out the boy in the remote countryside. Finally, they find Benjamin -- and he is, indeed, peculiar. Nobody knows if the child is up to the task, but the king's Christmas tradition -- and Benjamin himself -- might just be saved by a Christmas miracle that comes in the form of a very special pig -- who is rather peculiar herself.

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Talk of the Nation - November 28, 2006
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