The basketball diaries
By: Jim Carroll.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Carroll, Jim -- Childhood and youth.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Description: 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.