The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets
by Carroll, Jim
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140100180
- ISBN 13
- 9780140100181
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Synopsis
The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Set in New York City, they detail his daily life, sexual experiences, high school basketball career, Cold War paranoia, the counter-culture movement, and, especially, his addiction to heroin, which began when he was 13. The book is considered a classic piece of adolescent literature.
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- Bookseller
- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H01D-01088
- Title
- The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets
- Author
- Carroll, Jim
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140100180
- ISBN 13
- 9780140100181
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1987-07-07
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