Jim Carroll The Basketball Diaries (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Basketball DiariesCondition: NewSubtitle: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean StreetsISBN-10: 0140100180EAN: 9780140100181ISBN: 9780140100181Publisher: Penguin USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/07/1987Description: 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 SmithLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 196mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 187gAuthor: Jim CarrollGenre: Sports & HobbiesRelease Year: 1987 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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