The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

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Carroll has a conversation with a friend and notes that a junkie on a high often curls up like a fetus. This was another true story of someone who suffered a terrible addiction and was able to overcome it. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. 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. Find another region in the 1960s that experienced as much drug use, prostitution, and crime as New York.

My two sets of gimmicks right along side me in the slightly bloody water in the plastic cup on the crusty linoleum, probably used by every case of hepatitis in upper Manhattan by now.Finally ending the book’s 210 pages (it took me one more day to complete than I expected), I was struck by how affected by the read I was. Some seek to escape the horrors of guerilla war by using illicit drugs like marijuana and heroin—the latter of which is cheap and readily available in Southeast Asia.

Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. But Momaday thinks of himself first as a poet, and his early collections Angle of Geese (1974) and The Gourd Dancer (1976)demonstrate a restless sensibility, the poems moving between metrical verse and incantatory repetition, landscape and legend. With Manhattan as his playground and local junkies, thieves and hooligans as his playmates, Carroll spirals from mild delinquent to full blown addict believing (as all addicts first do) that where others fail, he has it all under control. I loved this book because I have always loved a well-written diary that tells a story, that rips your heart out.Carroll’s work includes several collections of poetry as well as a asecond memoir, Forces Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973. Very Good with wear to covers, creasing to spine and front cover, a series of indentations to the front cover extending into the first several leaves. In my intensity to read anything regarding the streets of New York City, I picked up this book at Alias East in Atwater Village. Says Carroll: "My legs began to get the feeling someone slit a nice little hole at the top of my thighs and poured in a few gallons of liquid lead. I'm not sure of the point, even if the passages read quickly and Carroll's writing, even as a high school kid, is smooth and natural.