A dazzling new collection two novellas and four short stories from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of seven books of fiction, among them "The Tunnel "( An extraordinary achievement Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post"); "Middle C "( Exhilaratingly ingenious Cynthia Ozick, "The" "New York Times Book Review, "cover); and "Cartesian Sonata "( The finest prose stylist in America "The Washington Post"). It begins with "In Camera," the first of the two novellas, and tells the story, which grows darker and dustier by the speck, of a Mr.Gab (who doesn t have the gift) and his photography shop (in a part of town so drab even robbers wouldn t visit), a shop stuffed with gray-white, gray-bleach photographs, each in its own cellophane sheet, loosely side-filed in cardboard boxes, tag attached... an inner sanctum where little happens beyond the fulsome, deep reverence for Mr.Gab s images and vast collection, a homemade museum in the midst of the outer maelstrom... until a...