The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

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

Jim Carroll and his family served as missionaries in Kuwait. In 1990 Jim was held hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait during the Iraq invasion. (His real-life story was chronicled in his first book: Faith in Crisis: How God Shows Up When You Need Him Most). Jim is a physician on the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia and an elder at First Presbyterian Church. He and his wife Shirley now live in Augusta, Georgia. They have been married for more than fifty years with eight children and fifteen grandchildren. Because he has worked and traveled extensively in the Middle East, he is able to bring firsthand knowledge of the land and culture to bear in the writing of his gripping Islamic Conflict Trilogy Series. To contact Jim and schedule a speaking engagement and order his other books, go to: www.allfaithsoil.com

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9780140100181
ISBN 10	0140100180
Titre	The Basketball Diaries
Auteur	Jim Carroll
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Penguin Putnam Inc
Année de publication	1987-07-07
Nombre de pages	224
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Note	Non disponible