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  • ISBN-13: 9780688172848
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/26/2000
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 288
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  • ISBN-13: 9780688172848
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/26/2000
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 8.54 (w) x 7.54 (h) x 0.78 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2009

    A Hilarious and Heart-wrenching Tale

    What can I say? I LOVED this book and devoured it in two days. The story told in alternating chapters between 30-something Lorena and her 11 year old daughter, Cassie, is about a marriage that is disintegrating. It is told against the backdrop of how a brand new medium called "television" is changing the structure of American family is the mid 1950s. Despite the sad tale, Marjorie Klein presents this disintegration deftly in an often humorous, often curious, manner that makes it very difficult to put the book down. The end is sad for you know all too well what will happen to Lorena, even though she doesn't yet have a clue. And despite all her selfish, foolish choices, you can't help but feel a bit sorry for her because, if one can admit it, there's a little Lorena in all of us. Everyone wants to feel special.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2004

    Lost?

    This book intrigued me right from the bookshelf. Bouncing back and forth from mother to daughter in each chapter left me a little dizzy. It didn't explain why she could see the test pattern? I felt the book wasn't finished.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 25, 2002

    AN OKAY BOOK

    Unique and interesting concept. I liked the fact that the story is told from the point-of-view of the 11-year-old girl. The mother's infidelity and abandonment of the family turned me off, though. This is a take-it-or-leave-it book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 2, 2000

    test pattern is a great afternoon read

    This book was well written. I enjoyed the way the author used the future(according to 1954) to draw us in and connect us with this 11-year old girl. Haven't read anything like it ever.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    Entertaining Kafka-like tale

    In 1954, Lorena and Pete Palmer buy their first TV set. Lorena is excited, but Pete is simply tired. Their eleven-year old daughter Cassandra seems hypnotized by even the test pattern that she swears has many shows in color. Cassie sees all sorts of future TV shows and news when the test pattern is on the picture tube, but everyone else sees the boring test pattern.

    The TV shows encourage Lorena to dance. She tells Pete she wants to professionally dance, but he scoffs at her. She is hurt and welcomes a chance to make love with veteran Binky Quisenberry, the mail clerk. However, on the test pattern¿s future news, Cassie sees her mother kill her father. The eleven-year old girl knows she must somehow intervene and saves his life because the test pattern tells the future.

    TEST PATTERN is an entertaining Twilight Zone like tale that compares the early days of TV innocence to later decades that show all. Though not for everyone, the well-written story line is weird but intriguing. Lorena and Pete are an interesting couple whose relationship seems dysfunctional even before the TV moves in and takes over their home. Cassie is a wonderful guide whose innocence contrasts with all the future bippys she sees inside the test pattern. Marjorie Klein has written an eerie tale that will elate fans that enjoy their novels to be a bit off center.

    Harriet Klausner

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