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    Funkytown
    Funkytown
    Funkytown
    Audiobook8 hours

    Funkytown

    Written by Paul Kennedy

    Narrated by Paul Kennedy

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    About this audiobook

    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 28, 2021
    ISBN9781004062416
    Funkytown
    Author

    Paul Kennedy

    Paul Kennedy is Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University and author of the international best-sellers, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers’ and ‘‘Preparing for the Twenty-First Century’.

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