Staten Island Memoirs

   Lost love haunts many as they age, but  in Staten Island Memoirs, Paris Polanski creates a ficticious love affair with a beautiful face from the past  he cannot forget.  Paris has led a full life that lacks only one thing - the love of a beautiful woman he met 43 years ago.   

   The woman in question is the real life equivalent to Helen, the central character in the novel, modeled after the Greek Goddess Helen of Troy.     

  The story opens with Paris Polanski in his home in Grant City, Staten Island.    Now  retired and in his sixties, he remains obsessed with a beautiful young woman from the past who he names Helen.  Her memory haunts him and her extraordinary beauty will not allow him to forget her.  Not being able to find his long lost love, creates a work of fiction in which he recreates his life by falling in love with, marrying and becoming part of Helens life, thus showing just how far one man's obsession will go to remove the sorrow of lost love.