The basketball diaries

210 pages

English language

Published Oct. 11, 1987 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-010018-1
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OCLC Number:
16049456

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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.

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