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Funkytown

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


Author:

  • Paul Kennedy

Narrator:

  • Paul Kennedy

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 9 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies

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