| Format | Paperback |
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Funkytown: A year on the brink of manhood
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| Print length: | 320 pages |
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| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Publication date: | 31 December 2024 |
| Dimensions: | 12.8 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm |
| ISBN-10: | 192329301X |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1923293014 |
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Description
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. —- ISBN: 9781923293014 | ISBN10: 192329301X | ISBN-13: 978-1923293014






