# The Basketball Diaries

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- Book: [The Basketball Diaries](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-carroll/the-basketball-diaries) ([The Basketball Diaries.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-carroll/the-basketball-diaries.md))
- Authors: [Jim Carroll](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-carroll)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4010-018-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1987-07-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...