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 The window is decorated with

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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 The window is decorated withThe 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