The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets, Paperback

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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 Di Caprio. ""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

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Jim Carroll

scriitor, poet și muzician punk american (1949–2009)

James Dennis Carroll a fost un autor, poet și muzician punk american. Carroll este cel mai cunoscut pentru lucrarea sa autobiografică din 1978, „The Basketball Diaries”, care a inspirat un film din 1995 cu același titlu, în care Leonardo DiCaprio l-a interpretat pe Carroll, și pentru piesa sa din 1980 „People Who Died” alături de Jim Carroll Band.