Funkytown
Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.)2025
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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
Work:
Imprint:
Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2025.©2021.
Collation:
305 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published: 2021.
ISBN:
9781923293014 (mass market paperback)
Dewey class:
994.51B/KEN
Language:
English
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BRN:
2287227