From the start, there's something not quite right about TiUyTilly: she seems out of proportion. "Was she too tall and yet too ... small at the same time? Was her neck too long? Her fingers?" At first, she merely echoes Jess's words, but she soon develops into the friend and playmate Jess has never had. Together they have adventures: they manage to break into Jess's grandfather's locked study and then into an amusement park (also locked) where the gates magically swing open.
All too quickly, though, the family returns from exotic Nigeria to prosaic England, where Jess is surrounded once again by bullying schoolmates, a hostile teacher and her hateful, doll-like blond cousin, Dulcie. Then, to Jess's joy, TillyTilly reappears, simply knocking on her door. They play together, go on a picnic, write a poem. But TillyTilly also formulates a plan to "get" Jess's tormentors.
The reader suspects that TillyTilly is one of those imaginary friends so common to lonely childhoods, and that the strange and sinister events are happening only in Jess's imagination. But just as Jess herself begins to doubt whether TillyTilly is "really really" there, her playmate's malevolent magic begins to spread, infecting every comer of Jess's world.
TillyTilly's power, at least, is far from imaginary. She reveals that Jess had a twin who died at birth -- and that she intends to act on that twin's behalf. No longer a girl but a horrific primeval presence, she takes over Jess's bedroom, mining it from a safe haven into a place of terror. "Stop looking to belong, half-and-half child," TillyTilly intones. "Stop. There is nothing; there is only me, and I have caught you."
Oyeyemi brilliantly conjures up the raw emotions and playground banter of childhood, writing with the confidence and knowledge of one who has only recently left that state herself. Jess's schoolmates, her therapist, the people she meets in Africa, even her parents, remain suitably shadowy figures, seen solely through the distorting lens of Jess's increasingly skewed perception.
"The Icarus Girl" explores the melding of cultures and the dream time of childhood, as well as the power of ancient lore to tint the everyday experiences of a susceptible little girl's seemingly protected life. Deserving of all its praise, this is a masterly first novel -- and a nightmarish story that will haunt Oyeyemi' s readers for months to come.
Jessamy Harrison is a girl who______.
A.is a native British girl
B.is out of her mind
C.is a born in a poor family
D.has trouble in controlling her temper
第1题
A.直接交换
B.存储转发交换
C.改进直接交换
D.查询交换
第2题
A.直接交换
B.存储转发交换
C.改进直接交换
D.查询交换
第3题
A.直接交换
B.存储转发交换
C.改进直接交换
D.查询交换
第4题
A.直接交换
B.存储转发交换
C.改进直接交换
D.查询交换
第5题
A、直接转发
B、存储转发
C、无碎片转发
D、查询交换
第7题
A.直接交换
B.改进直接交换
C.存储转发交换
D.查询交换置
第8题
A.直接交换
B.改进的直接交换
C.存储转发交换
D.碎片隔离交换
第9题
A.直接交换
B.存储转发交换
C.改进直接交换
D.查询交换
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