Plaion Jim Carroll On the Streets of New York

Jim Carroll grows up with his friends in the dirtiest neighborhood of New York. His incredible basketball talent earns the 13-year-old a scholarship to a prestigious Catholic high school. Outside the court, the life-hungry boy discovers a wild, enticing world of drugs, crime, sex, and violence, which he quickly succumbs to. Thrown out of the apartment by his desperate mother, Jim begins his descent into the darkest corners and deepest abysses of New York. Jim Carroll records each of his experiences in those diaries that years later will captivate thousands of fascinated readers under the title "The Basketball Diaries." This is his story.