The Basketball diaries

Age 12-15

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Jim Carroll: The Basketball diaries (1980, Bantam Books)

unknown binding, 177 pages

English language

Published Oct. 11, 1980 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-13306-6
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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. The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York--once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age.

9 editions

Subjects

  • 20th century
  • Biography
  • Carroll, Jim
  • Childhood and youth
  • Entertainers
  • Poets, American
  • United States