Books

January, 1982

Holiday cheer to all. Here's our annual gift-book selection to aid you in your shopping. As usual, you won't go wrong choosing some of the very special fiction previewed in Playboyduring the past year: Rabbit Is Rich (Knopf), by John Updike, brings Rabbit into middle age and forces him to deal with his own kid's lack of direction; Zuckerman Unbound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by Philip Roth, is the story of a writer who wrote a best seller about being Jewish, Sexy and plagued by his mom (sounds s...