Funkytown: A Memoir by Peter Kennedy

Funkytown: A Memoir by Peter Kennedy

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781922419828
Book Condition: Very Good
Author: Peter Kennedy
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Affirm Press
Place: South Melbourne VIC
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

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)

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