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The Basketball Diaries : The Classic about Growing up Hip on New York's Mean Streets by Jim Carroll (1987, UK-B Format Paperback)

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

Book Title
Basketball Diaries : the Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets
Author
Jim Carroll
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
1987
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.A7644z464
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
"His terse wit, with its archly contrived navet, transforms The Basketball Diaries, a tale of teenage rebellion, into a contemporary classic."- -Newsweek , "Filled with a kind of vitality. . . a remarkable account of New York City's lower depths." -New York Times "His terse wit, with its archly contrived navet, transforms The Basketball Diaries , a tale of teenage rebellion, into a contemporary classic."- -Newsweek "A generational hit." -Esquire
Copyright Date
1987
Lccn
87-025496
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19

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