Look Who’s Morphing is a collection of fictions that was published by Giramondo Publishing in 2009.
The book was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and Pacific), 2009 Age Fiction Book of the Year and Melbourne Prize Trust’s 2009 Best Writing Award.
Now in its second print run, Look Who’s Morphing is also studied at universities in Australia and abroad.
[Book cover photo: Owen Leong]
Blurb
Look Who’s Morphing is a collection of funny, playful, often outlandish fictions in which, along with his extended family, the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, and Whitney Houston’s bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, a Ford Bronco 4×4 – and, as a climax, a fifty-five metre tall guitar-wielding cock rock star, who performs for the people of Tokyo, and an adoring troupe of sexy fans.
Within these fantasies there is a deep intellectual and emotional engagement, a fundamental questioning of the nature of identity, and the way it is constructed in a world filled with the images of popular culture.
Book trailer
Praise
Cho’s fiction is playful, subversive, a big kick in the post-post-postmodern behind. There’s more to Cho’s work than eliciting big laughs, but how often do you close a book, then open it right back up again just to relive that pleasure?
Read and listen to samples
Read ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Suitmation’
This sample (from the ebook edition of Look Who’s Morphing) contains the book’s first two pieces: ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Suitmation’:
Listen to ‘AIYO!!! An Evil Group of Ninjas is Entering and Destroying a Call Centre!!!’
It’s a tale as old as time itself: an evil group of ninjas attacks a call centre.
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Story: Tom Cho
Voice: Janette Hoe
Producer: Archie Cuthbertson for Going Down Swinging. Recorded at 3RRR Studios, 2004
Listen to ‘The Sound of Music’
Let’s start at the very beginning:
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Story: Tom Cho
Voice: Tom Cho
Illustration: Marc Martin
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Producers: Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia for Paper Radio
Additional voices: Alex Nosek and Henry Winkler
Buy
Look Who’s Morphing is available in a range of formats. [Note: To buy a personally signed print edition, please contact me.]
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