num_pages: 224
description: 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-1960's, 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.
language: English
title: The Basketball Diaries
titlecomplete: The Basketball Diaries
genres: Biography, Classics, Poetry, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Autobiography, Sports, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 30460
publisher: Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA) Inc.