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[Dave Monroe]

Well, I'm sure this ISN'T what your looking for, but
if there's a genre in the making, well, try Kobo Abe,
The Box Man (Hako otoko, 1974).  People living,
wearing, walking around in boxes.  Across his career,
he seems to have gone from (roughly) existentialist to
absurdist, with some interesting stabs at sort of New
Wave science fiction.  There's have been pretty decent
films made of his The Woman in the Dunes (which is
perhaps his classic) and The Face of Another as well. 
I've succesfully given his Ark Sakura (one of the
first offerings from taht Vintage International line
translations, now sadly out of print) as a present to
various friends as well, as a sort of Japanses
Confedracy of Dunces.  Sorry, bags, boxes, just came
to mind, is all ...

--- Al X <boggle_king at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am fairly sure this has nothing to do with Mr.
> Pynchon, but perhaps I am mistaken, in which case
> we'll all be much happier. I am looking for the 
> author and/or title of a book I've heard about
> involving a hero/ine with a habit of putting a paper
> bag over her head to avoid reality. 

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