| Description |
305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
In 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 and humour, and evoking the brilliant, dusty haze of late Australian summer, Funkytown is a love letter to adolescence, football, family and outer surburbia |
| Subject |
Kennedy, Paul (Paul W.), author
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Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
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Coming of age -- Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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| ISBN |
9781922419828 |
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1922419826 |
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