Funkytown / Paul Kennedy.
Publication details: South Melbourne, Boonwurrung Country, VIC : Affirm Press, 2021.Description: 305 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922419828
- 1922419826
- Funky town
- Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.) -- Childhood and youth
- Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.)
- Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.)
- 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
- 994.51092 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 994.51 KEN | Available | 063691 |
"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.