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The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

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The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 book written by American 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,...


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The Basketball Diaries, Revisited
07/10/2005: 876 words, approx. 3 pages
Most sports-related books that claim to teach life lessons are transparently silly. Some are written by wealthy coaches trying to capitalize on gullible nitwits who assume that somebody who has succeeded on the court or the field will know how to fix the stumbling...
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The Boston Globe
In This Basketball Diary, Race And Self-absorption
02/03/2000: 783 words, approx. 3 pages
Talented writers have followed a big-time basketball team through a single season before - David Halberstam and John Feinstein come to mind - but surely none has produced a more bizarre eyewitness account than David Shields has, in his often tortured, occasionally hilarious chronicle...
 


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Critical Review by Jamie James
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In the following review, James lauds The Basketball Diaries.
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Critical Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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In the following review, Lehmann-Haupt discusses The Basketball Diaries and its sequel, Forced Entries, and the evolution of Carroll's voice and storytelling abilities.


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The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

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