RGB reviewed Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
A quite fascinating read about old new work
5 stars
Read it almost in one go, liked it, openly writes about how things where.
210 pages
English language
Published Sept. 12, 1987 by Penguin Books.
The basketball diaries
by Jim Carroll
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.
Subjects
- Carroll, Jim -- Childhood and youth.
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.