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Faber, the author of the vast novel "The Crimson Petal and the White," made his name with a prize-winning volume of short stories. In the current collection, he mines the mundane for the unexpected, even the surreal, with impressive assurance. Occasionally, his facility gives an impression of superficiality, but at his best he explores conflicts with a compelling balance of menace and wit, an ability exemplified by a story about an ailing ...