Funkytown
Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.)2025
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Paul Kennedy's Funkytown is the vivid true story of a year in the life of a teenager leaping into manhood. It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Paul Kennedy is searching for something else entirely. He is focused on finishing school, getting drafted into the AFL and falling in love. So much can change in a year. The rites of passage for many Australian teenage boys - blackout drinking, simmering violence and emotional suppression - take their toll, and the year that starts with so much promise ends with Kennedy expelled, arrested and undrafted. But one teacher sees Kennedy self-destructing and becomes determined to set him on another path.Told with poignancy, humour and evoking the brilliant, dusty haze of late Australian summer, Funkytown is a love letter to adolescence, football, family, and outer suburbia.
Main title:
Funkytown / Paul Kennedy.
Author:
Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.), author
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Imprint:
South Melbourne, VIC. : Affirm Press, 2025.©2021
Collation:
305 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2021.
ISBN:
9781923293014 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.51092994.5109
Language:
English
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Subject:
Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.)Teenagers -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- BiographyJournalists -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- BiographySerial murders -- Victoria -- FrankstonComing of age -- Victoria -- FrankstonFrankston (Vic.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryFrankston (Vic.) -- BiographyFrankston (Vic.) -- History
BRN:
273587
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