Holiday Book Bag

January, 1978

Tis the season again and we send you holiday greetings with our annual gift-book ideas--beginning with two novels Playboy previewed for you during the past year: John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy (Knopf) and Beggarman, Thief (Delacorte), Irwin Shaw's sequel to Rich Man, Poor Man. Both will make fine holiday reading. We strongly suggest two other novels: Song of Solomon (Knopf), by Toni Morrison, a beautifully written story of a black American family's search for roots, and In the Flesh (M...