Look Who's Morphing
Publisher: Giramondo
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781920882730; 9781922146038; 9781920882549
Subjects: Shapeshifting; Fiction; Identity (Philosophical concept); Métamorphose; Romans, nouvelles; Identité; FICTION; General
Description: 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.
Notes: English.
Table of contents: title: 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.