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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

Carroll, Jim

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Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0140100180
ISBN13: 9780140100181
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jul 7 1987
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.09 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty. -- Patti Smith

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