The Invention of Sound

By Chuck Palahniuk

Book Overview

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. A disturbingly entertaining novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club.

"A wry, devilish delight." --Publishers Weekly

Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth.

Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she's become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real.

Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous fa ade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers--his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538717980
• ISBN13: 9781538717981
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"