Funkytown: A Memoir by Peter Kennedy

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good to near fine condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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, and humour and evoking the brilliant, dusty haze of late Australian summer, Funkytown is a love letter to adolescence, football, family, and outer suburbia. (back cover)