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The Basketball Diaries
by Carroll, Jim
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bridgeville, California, United States
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About This Item
Penguin Wrappers, later printing, reading copy. Reprint. Soft Cover.
Synopsis
The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Set in New York City, they detail his daily life, sexual experiences, high school basketball career, Cold War paranoia, the counter-culture movement, and, especially, his addiction to heroin, which began when he was 13. The book is considered a classic piece of adolescent literature.
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- Bookseller
- A Gyenis
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 411
- Title
- The Basketball Diaries
- Author
- Carroll, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Beat Books;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.