The Basketball Diaries
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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 | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140100181 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140100180 |
| Title | The Basketball Diaries |
| Author | Jim Carroll |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1987-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |