The basketball diaries
(1987, original release: 1978)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/CARROLL,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1987
©1978
©1978
DESCRIPTION
210 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0140100180 (pbk.), 9780140100181(pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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