TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kennedy,Paul
TI  - Funkytown
SN  - 9781922419828
U1  - 994.51092 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - South Melbourne, Boonwurrung Country, VIC
PB  - Affirm Press
KW  - Kennedy, Paul
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - fast
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Melbourne
KW  - Serial murders
KW  - Frankston
KW  - Nineteen ninety-three, A.D
KW  - Frankston (Vic.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies
N1  - "A year on the brink of manhood" -- Cover; "A memoir" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
ER  -