The Invention of Sound
(Playaway)

Title from Playaway label.

ON ORDER RECORD.

"HD."

"LIGHT."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

A fathers 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. Hes 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, shes 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 Hollywoods 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.