Basketball Diaries Ages 12-15 [Paperback]

Jim Carroll (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) (April 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553248952
• ISBN-13: 978-0553248951
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,116,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars two thumbs up best book i have ever read, April 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Basketball Diaries Ages 12-15 (Paperback)

in basket ball diaries jim carroll captures the unbearable truth of life as a heroin addict on the streets on new york city...i was completely taken away by the events he described...his word completely mesmorized me...i was captured by his writing....his words imspire the writer in me!!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CARROLL REVEALS MORE THAN MERELY HIS OLD LIFE, November 21, 1999

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Steven J. Conifer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Basketball Diaries Ages 12-15 (Paperback)

In THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, Jim Carroll not only renders easily imaginable (and easily sympathized with) adversities- insecurity, addiction, melancholy, self-loathing, fear, identity crises- to which thousands of American youths are subjected daily, but demonstrates a vast capacity for proficient writing, the sort which swallows the reader's attention like a shark might devour a minnow and holds it long after the last sentence has been read. A phenomenal work! I enthusiastically recommend it to all.

(Also recommended: CATCHER IN THE RYE, by J.D. Salinger; ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac; JOHN BARLEYCORN, by Jack London; CAT'S CRADLE, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS, by Roddy Doyle; BIG SUR, by Jack Kerouac.)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the basketball diaries ages 12-15, December 2, 1999

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Mark Ryan Steed (Jonesboro, Arkansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Basketball Diaries Ages 12-15 (Paperback)

jim carrol's work brings you into his life of new york city and an addict's fragments of hell. his life story in the basketball diaries tells a tale very few writers could put to page in the way he has; it is a great book in which shows the raw truth on page and recommend to everyone.