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Nino Culotta Nino Culotta i(A33608 works by)
Writing name for: John O'Grady
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1 y separately published work icon They're a Weird Mob [and] So You Want to Be an Australian Nino Culotta , Cyril Pearl , Dingley : Seal Books , 1995 Z1310808 1995 selected work novel prose humour
1 y separately published work icon Gone Gougin' Nino Culotta , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1975 Z1310947 1975 single work novel humour
1 Dialogue Nino Culotta , 1968 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Kaleidoscope 1968; (p. 46-49)
1 4 y separately published work icon Gone Fishin' Nino Culotta , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1962 Z54756 1962 single work novel humour
1 3 y separately published work icon Cop This Lot : A Novel Nino Culotta , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1960 Z202884 1960 single work novel humour
1 Low Men in High Places Nino Culotta , 1960 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 October vol. 81 no. 4211 1960; (p. 36-37,60-61)
1 Wine an' Tucker Nino Culotta , 1960 single work prose
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 September vol. 81 no. 4207 1960; (p. 43,53)
1 38 y separately published work icon They're a Weird Mob Nino Culotta , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1957 Z54863 1957 single work novel humour (taught in 2 units)

'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.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
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