Look who's morphing / Tom Cho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cho, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo Publishing, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tom Cho's collection of fictions and fantasies is all about morphing and transformation. Through the shape-shifting, we follow the narrator on his surreal adventures, which include dirty dancing with Johnny Castle, a rambunctious encounter with TV's Dr Phil, a job as Whitney Houston's bodyguard and another as a Muppet, a period in service with the von Trapp family in The Sound of Music, a totally destructive outing as Godzilla, and that high octane performance as a Gulliver-sized cock rock singer, complete with cohort of tiny adoring girls. As these fantasies of identity, sexuality and power u

Contents:

CONTENTS; Dirty Dancing; Suitmation; The Exorcist; Dinner with my Brother; Dinner with my Grandmother; Dinner with Auntie Ling and Uncle Wang; The Sound of Music; Learning English; Today on Dr Phil; Chinese Whispers; A Counting Rhyme; The Bodyguard; AIYO!!! An evil group of Ninjas is entering and destroying a call centre!!!; I, Robot; My Life in China; Pinocchio; Look Who's Morphing; Cock Rock; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-922146-03-X

OCLC:

821724655