The Basketball Diaries
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Today, Jim Carroll is a highly renowned poet and rock musician. But in the mid-1960s, during his coming-of-age from twelve to fifteen, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During those 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, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.--lastgasp.com.
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NYC Coming of Age submitted by godzilla on August 12, 2013, 10:54pm Punk Rock coming of age. Unique voice that captures how hard it is to be teen.
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1987, c1978.
Year Published: 1978
Description: 210 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140100180
9780140100181
SUBJECTS
Carroll, Jim -- Childhood and youth.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Entertainers -- Biography.