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"Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in drugs, crime, sex, and violence, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart."@en
"A group of high school friends spiral into a frightening and hazy street underworld ruled by the rush of getting high."@en
"Het verhaal van het leven van een schooljongen uit een Newyorkse achterbuurt, die aan de heroïne verslaafd raakt."
"Basketball-crazy Catholic High School student Jim finds solace in heroin and hustling after his best friend Bobby dies of leukemia."
"Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart."
"Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart."@en
"Chronicles the teen years of the poet/musician Jim Carroll on the streets of New York, where he shot baskets with some of the best playground stars and heroin with street characters."@en
"In the early 1970's there emerged from the brutal streets of New York the voice for a new generation of youth disillusioned by the lost promises of the 60's. The voice belonged to Jim Carroll whose unflinching, compelling and corrosive memoirs of adolescence exploded into the worlds of literature and music. Travelling desperate roads Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) keeps writing, but his spiralling descent into drug addiction causes his entries to turn surreal, mirroring a life of mindless crime, depravation and despair. Finally a stint in Riker's Island juvenile reformatory and his written account of a life spinning out of control rescue him from annihilation..."
""Today, Jim Carroll is a highly renowned poet and rock musician. 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 those years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City, playing basketball, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure"--OCLC Worldcat, as viewed on January 11, 2007."
"A promising high school basketball star and poet becomes lost in a world of drugs and crime."@en
"Quatre copains dissipés d'une école catholique de New York ont une passion en commun : le basket. Lorsque Bobby meurt d'une leucémie, Jim et ses copains sont confrontés à la dure réalité de la vie qui leur apparaît de plus en plus absurde. Jim se confie à son journal intime, mais l'écriture ne l'empêche pas de se droguer. Sa mère finit par le mettre à la porte. Il continue d'écrire, mais les pensées qu'il consigne dans son journal prennent une tournure surréaliste, témoignant au quotidien de sa descente aux enfers."
"A teen athlete spirals into a world of drug addiction and street hustling. Includes interviews and poetry reading with Jim Carroll."@en
"Chronicles the teen years of the poet/musician on the streets of New York, where he shot baskets with some of the best playground stars and heroin with street characters."
"Powerful story based on the extraordinary life of teenage poet-rocker turned junkie, Jim Carroll."@en
"Powerful story based on the extraordinary life of teenage poet-rocker turned junkie, Jim Carroll."
"A teen athlete spirals into a world of drug addiction and street hustling."
"A teen athlete spirals into a world of drug addiction and street hustling."@en
"Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart."