Publisher's synopsis
Look Who’s Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing 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 clips and video games, 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 Gulliver-sized cock rock singer, played upon by an adoring troupe of sexy Lilliputians in short skirts and sailor suits and cheerleader outfits.
Within these fantasies there is a deep intellectual and emotional engagement, a fundamental questioning of the nature of identity, and the way it constructs itself in a world dominated by the images of popular culture.
Awards
- 2010 Shortlisted Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South–East Asia and Pacific)
- 2009 Shortlisted The Age Book of the Year (Fiction)
- 2009 Shortlisted Best Writing Award, Melbourne Prize Trust
Complementary content
- Listen to a podcast of Tom’s stories at Paper Radio
- Learn about Tom’s thesis in the NLA’s Trove
- Book review by Alice Robinson at Text Journal
- Read an interview with Tom on Mascara Literary Review
