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Funkytown

by Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy
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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. 'A brilliant story of a young boy told by a man who, in the end, found his way.' JIMMY BARNES 'Leaps into the joy and fear of coming of age ... I love this book.' SOFIE LAGUNA 'A moving and enlightening account of being seventeen and struggling. This is a great read.' PAUL JENNINGS
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Publisher: Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781004062447
  • File size: 233980 KB
  • Release date: October 1, 2021
  • Duration: 08:07:27

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781004062447
  • File size: 234006 KB
  • Release date: October 1, 2021
  • Duration: 08:08:25
  • Number of parts: 7

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subjects

Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction

Languages

English

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. 'A brilliant story of a young boy told by a man who, in the end, found his way.' JIMMY BARNES 'Leaps into the joy and fear of coming of age ... I love this book.' SOFIE LAGUNA 'A moving and enlightening account of being seventeen and struggling. This is a great read.' PAUL JENNINGS
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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction