As Mitzi reckons with her past and the consequences of her work, Foster begins to piece together the truth of his daughter’s final day, and, more importantly, the foley artist who recorded her last words: Mitzi Ives’s father. Everything changes for Foster when he is sent a hyperlink (by persons unknown) of a scene from a slasher film where his daughter’s terrified screech – “Help me! Daddy, please, no! Help me!” – has been dubbed over the cries of a B-movie starlet. Everything changes for Mitzi when she records a scream so irresistible that anyone who hears it can’t help but scream in response. When we first meet Mitzi, she is explaining to her dead-head boyfriend, Jimmy, that she intends to record a death-rattle that “will make everyone in the whole world scream at the exact same time.” When we first meet Foster, he has boarded a plane to accuse an innocent man, in tow with his daughter, of being a child pornographer. Gates Foster is an investigator who spends his days hunting through child-pornography sites for a glimpse of his daughter, Lucinda, missing for more than a decade.
Mitzi Ives is a foley artist who, following in her father’s footsteps, specialises in screams so devastating and true-to-life they almost sound real.
The Invention of Sound, Chuck Palahniuk ( Grand Central Publishing 978-0-1, $27.00, 240pp, hc) September 2020.Ĭhuck Palahniuk’s outlandish new novel, The Invention of Sound, toggles between two very different individuals.
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