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

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He actually becomes a stick up artist holding knifes to little old ladies but is too far gone to see anything wrong with this.

Finally, as the largest American city and one which contained a significant number of landmarks and economic centers, New York—especially Manhattan—was thought to be a prime target for a nuclear warhead during the Cold War, a fear that Carroll expresses on several occasions.I didn’t really think, I didn’t even take my sneakers off, I just jumped into this jerky dream that lasted all the way down until I hit the bottom.

This diary gives insight into the self-serving life of a guy with authority issues, and while may have been considered groundbreaking, is an affront to people not given the opportunities Carroll had.

By keeping the work youth-based and in the moment, the narrative has verve and a sincerity that would have been lost.