The Basketball Diaries
of Jim Carroll
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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-1960's, 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. "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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 224 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
- Publication Date 1995
- First Publication 06/01/78
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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