Funkytown

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TitleFunkytown Personal AuthorKennedy, Paul (Paul W.), authorDescriptionPaul 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.Physical characteristics305 pages ; 24 cmLanguageEnglishAccess restrictionsFor use in library only - available to be viewed at Frankston Library (60 Playne Street Frankston VIC 3199)Dewey NumberLH 994.5109 KENN

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Subject (Keyword)Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.); Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.) Childhood and youth; Teenage boys Victoria Melbourne Biography; Journalists Victoria Melbourne Biography; Serial murders Victoria Frankston; Nineteen ninety-three, A.D.; Coming of age Victoria Frankston; Frankston (Vic.) Social life and customs 20th century; Frankston (Vic.) Biography; Frankston (Vic.) History; Autobiographies

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