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    The Basketball Diaries

    The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

    Author Jim Carroll
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    $17.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    5.05"W x 7.75"H x 0.5"D   | 6 oz | 80 per carton
    On sale Jul 07, 1987 | 224 Pages | 9780140100181
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    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-1960s, 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. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

    "I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith
    “Filled with a kind of vitality. . . a remarkable account of New York City’s lower depths.”
    –New York Times

    "His terse wit, with its archly contrived naïveté, transforms The Basketball Diaries, a tale of teenage rebellion, into a contemporary classic."-
    -Newsweek 
     
    “A generational hit.” –Esquire
    Elizabeth and Jim Carroll are the founders of Marriage Boot Camp® and the stars of WeTV’s Marriage Boot Camp. View titles by Jim Carroll

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    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-1960s, 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. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

    "I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith

    Praise

    “Filled with a kind of vitality. . . a remarkable account of New York City’s lower depths.”
    –New York Times

    "His terse wit, with its archly contrived naïveté, transforms The Basketball Diaries, a tale of teenage rebellion, into a contemporary classic."-
    -Newsweek 
     
    “A generational hit.” –Esquire

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    Elizabeth and Jim Carroll are the founders of Marriage Boot Camp® and the stars of WeTV’s Marriage Boot Camp. View titles by Jim Carroll

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