The Invention of Sound

Author(s): Chuck Palahniuk

Modern & Contemporary Literature

A father's decades-long search for a missing daughter.


A young woman about to perfect the darkest art.


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 Mitzi find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous façade.


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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781472155481
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Corsair
  • : 0.3
  • : April 2020
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chuck Palahniuk
  • : Chuck Palahniuk
  • : 256
  • : 256
  • : 813.6
  • : 813.6
  • : Sep-20
  • : Sep-20
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback