Jim Carroll Knihy

Jim Carroll je dnes známým básníkem a rockerem. Ale v polovině 60. let, mezi dvanáctým a patnáctým rokem jeho života, to byl mladý rebel, který si získával prostor a jméno v nemilosrdných ulicích New York City. Během těchto let zaznamenával své zkušenosti a výsledkem je deník zcela neběžné upřímnosti, ve kterém popisuje rozpustilé a častěji naopak úděsné stránky života teenagerů. Mladíček Carroll se protlouká velkoměstem, hraje basketball, chodí za školu, kšeftuje, švindlaří a krade, běhá za holkama, náruživě si užívá drog až k závislosti, a přesto stále, stále hledá „něco čistýho“.

Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll initially made his reputation as a poet, and has won acclaim and comparisons to everyone from Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara for his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery.This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll's Living at the Movies, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book of Nods, released in 1986. Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including "Curtis's Charm," a vignette set in New York City's Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic tributes to Robert Mapplethorpe and Ted Berrigan."His poems' urgent, obsessive metaphors pose tensely against their cool, streetwise surface voice, charging them with an electricity that's at once disturbing, sexual, religious, and psychological."--Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

V hluboce básnickém románu J. L. Carra Měsíc na venkově nachází Tom Birkin po první světové válce útočiště v klidném vesnickém kostele Oxgodby, kde má restaurovat středověké nástěnné malby. Ponořen do míru a krásy venkova a neměnných rytmů života na vesnici se pokouší načerpat sílu a energii, zapomenout na prožité hrůzy a nabrat dech do nového života. Postupně prožívá pocit obnovy a víry v budoucnost. Nyní, dlouho poté, přemýšlí o plynutí času a síle umění a nachází ve svých vzpomínkách určitou útěchu pro vše, co bylo ztraceno.

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.--lastgasp.com

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A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight- year-old star of the late -1980s New York art scene, views a show of Velázquez paintings and is so humbled by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and retreats to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, he recalls the most emblematic moments and figures of his childhood and early career as he searches to recover the spark of inspiration in his own work and life.

Jabr Oslander, raised in a missionary family, revolts against his family's Scriptural teaching. He tries to take advantage of the recent discovery of oil in homeland of Kuwait. He is thwarted at every turn and finds himself in mortal danger. God steps in for the rescue.