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Among the many spectacular fictional debuts of our period, these revived, creative, and pleasantly irreverent stories introduce an astonishing new talent.In the selectionis amusing title story, a man gets an unique dispensation from his rabbi to determine a hooker. "The Wig" requires an ageing wigmaker and makes her, for just one second, stunning. In "The Tumblers," Englander envisions several Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, inventive perspective, transforms them into acrobats tumbling out-of harm's way. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is just a function of surprising creativity and expert --a guide that's as happy and wonderful because it is wrenchingly sad.