{"product_id":"9781921921346","title":"They're a Weird Mob","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey're a Weird Mob\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Introduction by Jacinta Tynan. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn O'Grady\u003c\/b\u003e (Nino Culotta) was born in Waverley on 9 October 1907. He wrote for most of his adult life, but did not publish a book until he dreamed up \u003ci\u003eThey're a Weird Mob\u003c\/i\u003e to win a bet. He was fifty when it came out. It remains one of the most successful titles in Australian publishing history. In 1959 he published his famous comic poem 'The Integrated Adjective', better known as 'Tumba Bloody Rumba' in the \u003ci\u003eBulletin\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in Sydney in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacinta Tynan\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, columnist for \u003ci\u003eSunday Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and news presenter on Sky News. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eGood Man Hunting\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir about looking for love, earned her the accolade 'Australia's answer to Carrie Bradshaw'. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eSome Girls Do: My Life as a Teenager\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of female authors writing the true story of their adolescence. Jacinta is regarded as a commentator for her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etextclassics.com.au\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A riotous comedy.' \u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'...a rollicking comedy about an Italian journalist in Fifties Australia trying to get his head around the natives' vernacular. Anybody who has the subtitles on for Kath \u0026amp; Kim will get the joke.' \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Nino Culotta encouraged Australians to laugh at themselves, while providing a walloping hint for the 'New Australians' who were gracing our shores: 'Get yourself accepted...and you will enter a world that you never dreamed existed,' he wrote. 'And once you have entered it, you will never leave it.' The book remains just as relevant today: \u003ci\u003eWeird Mob\u003c\/i\u003e is about good people trying to make a go of things. With its rollicking and affectionate humour, it showcases our manners, our wit and our distinctive vernacular - where 'they open their mouths no more than is absolutely necessary'.' Jacinta Tynan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154166956272,"sku":"9781921921346","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921921346_p0.jpg?v=1763632776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921921346","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}