Holiday Book Bag

January, 1979

Season's greetings and best wishes for good reading: Here are our annual gift-book selections. We previewed some terrific books in the magazine this past year and among those that would make excellent presents are Kalki (Random House), by Gore Vidal, a tale that will entertain you all the way to the end of the world; Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex (Delacorte), which reinterprets the legend of the Knights of the Round Table; and The Flounder (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), by Günter Grass, an extravagan...