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In the introduction, Mr.
Raphael says his essays were in-
spired by speeches at the 1992 Re-
publican Party Convention and
an incident at Yad Vashem,
among others.
Protestors interrupted a 1994
ceremony at Yad Vashem as a
group of visitors went to lay
wreaths in memory of gays and
lesbians killed during the Holo-
caust. One "hysterical demon-
strator" called the group "evil," Mr.
Raphael writes.

wood lamps. I see it all, but have
no memories. I have the scar.

Mr. Raphael also is the author
of Dancing on Tisha BAv.
ulie Salamon's story begins
with a movie.
She and her mother and
stepfather are on their way
to Poland. At the same time, di-
rector Steven Spielberg is in the
country, filming Schindler's List.
In The Net of Dreams: A
Family's Search for a Rightful
Place (Random House), Ms. Sala-
mon recounts the unraveling of
the complex family story — a sto-
ry of secrets and pain and faith —
that followed.
A former film critic for The Wall
Street Journal, Ms. Salamon grew
up in Ohio. Both her parents, Lily
and Sanyi, were Holocaust sur-
vivors.
At first glance their existence
appeared perfect:

Kosinski's haunting work is the
tale of a boy who, during the Holo-
caust, spends his days running
from place to place, hiding with
peasants and witnessing the most
grotesque scenes. In one such in-
stance, a man uses a spoon to pop
out the eyeballs of another.
James Park Sloan's new biog-
raphy, Jerzy Kosinski (Dutton),
I wondered if this was what it
tells the story of this intriguing was like during World War II in
author whose own
Europe — that is,
life often was dan-
seeing something
gerously interwoven
so unbelievable
with his fiction. To
that you were ut-
read this compelling
terly unable to re-
work is to learn of a
spond or know
dark life of sex
how to respond.
clubs, infidelity and
Should I leave?
an unquenchable
Should I leap
passion for some-
Our lives might have seemed
down from the
thing new, always
platform onto the lifted from one of the Disney
something new.
floor to make the movies we loved so much, if only
A native of
demonstrators the grown-ups hadn't had so many
Poland, Kosinski
stop? I was secrets — ominous secrets. Our
came as a young
amazed at the ha- cousins Bab and Aliska both had
man to the United
tred I suddenly numbers tattooed on their arms.
States. He married
felt, wishing I Another group of cousins had a dif-
an older woman,
silence ferent last name: They were Sal-
could
an alcoholic, and Jerzy Kosinski: A strange, dark life. those monsters of away instead of Salamon. Most
worked a variety of
disturbing to us was the moods our
intolerance.
At times Mr. Raphael also fo- father would periodically fall into;
odd jobs before becoming one of
the world's leading writers. In ad- cuses on his own upbringing, re- he was capable of not talking for
dition to his classic The Painted flecting in one essay his pained days at a time.
Then there
Bird, Kosinski found both critical relationship with PHOTO COPYRIGHT SARA KRULWICH
were those half-
and popular acclaim with Being his father:
eaten sandwich-
My father has
There, the story of a man raised
es her mother left
on television (which later became left me scarred.
around the home
There's a photo of
a film starring Peter Sellers).
and her father's
Mr. Sloan, for more than 20 the four of us, I'm
uncompromising
years a friend of Mr. Kosinski, an infant, plastic
silence about his
traces the author's life from nipple in my
first wife and
Poland to his suicide, meticulous- mouth, bandage
child, lost with
ly conducted according to Hem- across my head,
the millions who
lock Society guidelines. A plastic lying in my moth-
perished at the
bag over his head, pills in his er's arms. She
hands of the
stomach, Kosinski died in the looks down, and
Nazis.
bathtub of his New York City smiles. My father
Everything be-
stands apart, in
apartment.
gins to make
An avid polo fan, Mr. Kosins- a short-sleeved
sense after the
ki also appeared in Warren Beat- shirt and pleated
trip to Poland, af-
ty's Reds and was friends with pants. The story: Julie Salamon: Fa mily ties.
ter Ms. Salamon
Henry Kissinger, Norman Mail- My mother said
and her mother go to Auschwitz
er and Roman Polanski. Much of she asked him to put me to bed,
the glamour ended, though, with several times, because I looked and see the barracks where, al-
the appearance of a Village Voice tired. I fell somehow against the most 50 years earlier, Lily had
article questioning Kosinski's au- glass-topped blond wood coffee been a prisoner.
And then, finally, Ms. Salam-
thorship of many of his works. The table, ripping open an eyebrow,
author was devastated by the sto- needing stitches. I have the scar on's coming to terms with her par-
ry, and it would forever shape his — a line, a space where nothing ents' unspoken story - as she
grows. I see that fifties room —the understands the gift that defines
life.
kemos resident Lev archway to the foyer, the double her own life: safety, certainty, nor-
malcy.
Raphael is the author of the French doors to the dining room,
Also new from Random House:
new Journeys & Ar- the smaller one to the hall. The
rivals: On being Gay and olive rug, the thick and heavy The Princeton Review's Hillel
Jewish (Faber and Faber), a col- chairs and couch, in green or red Guide to Jewish Life on Cam-
lection of autobiographical and shot through with gold; the bulky pus. Edited by Ruth Fredman
matching drapes and ugly drift- Cernea, the book features more
critical essays.

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