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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean
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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets Paperback - 1987

by Carroll, Jim

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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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  • Title The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets
  • Author Carroll, Jim
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition UsedAcceptable
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1987-07-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2Y6RVK0007AT
  • ISBN 9780140100181 / 0140100180
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.09 x 0.46 in (19.84 x 12.93 x 1.17 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Poets, American - 20th century, Poets, American - 20th century - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87025496
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Jim Carroll’s bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries was first released in 1978 and adapted as a film in 1995. Carroll’s work includes several collections of poetry as well as a asecond memoir, Forces Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973. As the leader of The Jim Carroll Band he released three albums as well as several spoken word recordings. He died in New York City on September 11, 2009.

About the author

Jim Carroll's bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries was first released in 1978 and adapted as a film in 1995. Carroll's work includes several collections of poetry as well as a asecond memoir, Forces Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973. As the leader of The Jim Carroll Band he released three albums as well as several spoken word recordings. He died in New York City on September 11, 2009.

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