num_pages: 240
description: A father's decades-long search for his missing daughter.A young woman about to engineer the perfect scream.The most dangerous secret Hollywood has ever kept.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 faade. 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 powershis most suspenseful most daring and most genre-defying work yet.
language: English
title: The Invention of Sound
publisher: Grand Central Publishing