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The Basketball Diaries

Written by: Jim Carroll
Narrated by: Jim Carroll
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Publisher's Summary

In his teens, Jim Carroll roamed the streets of New York, shooting baskets with some of New York's best "playground" stars, and shooting heroin with some of the city's most memorable street characters. The Basketball Diaries is his chronicle of those years. Written while in his teens, it is a literary tour-de-force and a stunning portrait of contemporary urban street life. The characters and incidents are moving and funny and sad, but always very real.
©1963 -1978 by Jim Carroll (P)1994 by Audio Literature

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"At thirteen, Jim Carroll writes better prose than 89 percent of the novelists working today." (Jack Kerouac)

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