1981 Jim Carroll 'The Basketball Diaries'

Author and musician Jim Carroll's gritty 1978 memoir is an edited collection of the diaries he kept from the age of twelve to sixteen. The diary discusses his day-to-day life in New York City - his high school basketball career, relationships and sexual experiences, poetry compositions, and addiction to heroin at just 13 years old

The book was adapted to film in 1995, directed by Scott Kalvert and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim - see our VHS copy also in stock today...

Publisher:Bantam Books

Publication Date:1981

Binding:Softcover

Book Condition:VG