Funkytown /
Kennedy, Paul
Funkytown / Funky town. Paul Kennedy. - South Melbourne, Boonwurrung Country, VIC : Affirm Press, 2021. - 305 pages ; 24 cm.
"A year on the brink of manhood" -- Cover. "A memoir" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781922419828 1922419826
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Kennedy, Paul--Childhood and youth.
Kennedy, Paul author.
Kennedy, Paul
Coming of age.
Journalists.
Autobiographies.
Coming of age--Australia.
Journalists--Australia--Biography.
Teenage boys--Victoria--Melbourne--Biography.
Journalists--Victoria--Melbourne--Biography.
Serial murders--Victoria--Frankston.
Nineteen ninety-three, A.D.
Coming of age--Victoria--Frankston.
Australia.
Frankston (Vic.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Frankston (Vic.)--Biography.
Frankston (Vic.)--History.
Autobiographies
Biographies.
994.51092
Funkytown / Funky town. Paul Kennedy. - South Melbourne, Boonwurrung Country, VIC : Affirm Press, 2021. - 305 pages ; 24 cm.
"A year on the brink of manhood" -- Cover. "A memoir" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781922419828 1922419826
jb2021067825
Kennedy, Paul--Childhood and youth.
Kennedy, Paul author.
Kennedy, Paul
Coming of age.
Journalists.
Autobiographies.
Coming of age--Australia.
Journalists--Australia--Biography.
Teenage boys--Victoria--Melbourne--Biography.
Journalists--Victoria--Melbourne--Biography.
Serial murders--Victoria--Frankston.
Nineteen ninety-three, A.D.
Coming of age--Victoria--Frankston.
Australia.
Frankston (Vic.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Frankston (Vic.)--Biography.
Frankston (Vic.)--History.
Autobiographies
Biographies.
994.51092
