The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets Penguin Teen Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of

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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets Penguin Teen Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist ofThe 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