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Nino Culotta

Introduction by Jacinta Tynan

Who the hell’s Nino Culotta. That’s what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn’t it? Well I’m Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni—John—well Giovannino is like Johnny, and Nino is an easier way of saying it. Or a lazier way, if you like.

Just off the boat from Italy—the north—Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he’s never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking.

They’re a Weird Mob is an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words.

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About the Author

John O’Grady was born in Waverley on 9 October 1907. Soon afterwards his father resigned from his job as editor of the New South Wales Agricultural Gazette and moved the family to a remote farm in the Peel Valley near Tamworth, where he was eventually to go broke.

John was educated at home by his father along with several of his seven brothers...

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About the Introducer

Jacinta Tynan is an author, columnist for Sunday Life, and news presenter on Sky News. Her first book, Good Man Hunting, a memoir about looking for love, earned her the accolade ‘Australia’s answer to Carrie Bradshaw’. Her second book, Some Girls Do: My Life as a Teenager is an anthology of female authors writing the true story of their...

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Extent:
272pp
Format:
Paperback
Text publication date:
26 April 2012
First published:
1957
Region:
NSW
ISBN:
9781921922183
AU Price:
$14.95
NZ Price:
$17.99
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    ISBN: 9781921921346
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