num_pages: 179
description: Here comes Jim Carroll. A wise-ass kid getting wiser on the New York streets. He's street-tough, street-smart. His prose is blacker than black leather, whiter than heroin, rainbow-colored. Cuts like a razor. And twice as quick. Reading Jim Carroll is a rare unforgettable high.
language: English
title: The Basketball diaries
titlecomplete: The Basketball diaries
genres: Coming Of Age, Biography, Poetry, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Sports, Memoir, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 30456
publisher: Bantam Books