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.
À propos de The Basketball Diaries
Coming-of-age film centered on a teenager who sees his dream of becoming a basketball star threatened due to an addiction to heroin.
Réalisation de The Basketball Diaries
The film is adapted from a memoir of the same name by Jim Carroll. Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Carroll in the film.
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Non-fiction books about drugs.. Books about writers.. Books about musicians.. Works originally published in The Paris Review.. American memoirs.
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