Today Jim Carroll is a renowned poet and rock performer. But in the mid 1960s, during his coming of age from twelve to fifteen, 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 unparalled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious amnd terrifying teenage existence.
year: 1987, 1995, 1978
call number/section: 920, 813.54, 1000
subjects: carroll, jim, childhood and youth, poets, american, 20th century, biography, entertainers, united states, american poets, teenage rebellion, sports - basketball, new york city (streets), jim carroll (1951-)
Editions
Carroll, Jim
Penguin Books (1987)
A diary of the author's early teen years in the mid-1960s, telling how he progressed from sniffing glue to shooting heroin while playing basketball for Trinity High School in Manhattan.
Schools: 1
Carroll, Jim
Penguin Books (1995)
Today Jim Carroll is a renowned poet and rock performer. But in the mid 1960s, during his coming of age from twelve to fifteen, 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 unparalled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious amnd terrifying teenage existence.
Schools: 2
Carroll, Jim
Penguin Books (1978)
Schools: 0
DiCaprio, Leonardo
Jim Carroll, a New York high school basketball hero appears to have it all until he turns to drugs and ends up on the streets of New York.
Schools: 0
DiCaprio, Leonardo
Jim Carroll, a New York high school basketball hero appears to have it all until he turns to drugs and ends up on the streets of New York.
Schools: 1