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A moving, vividly rendered novel from the late author of The Basketball Diaries . When poet, musician, and diarist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing touches on a potent work of fiction. The Petting Zoo tells the story of Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The Petting Zoo is laugh-filled book of humorous poems and fun-filled illustrations that challenges the traditional sanity of life as we know it. Each poem twists rational thought from the intended to something that was never considered. The author wrote and illustrated the book... Read Full Overview