(hb; 2020)
From the inside flap
“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, he’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 façade. . .”
Review
Palahniuk’s latest work is─true to Palahniukian form─a novel with an unconventional structure, each scene an overtly crafted puzzle piece that, upon tale completion, reveals an unsettling, memorable whole. After reading this darkly amusing and horrific satire about Hollywood, reality and good intentions gone terribly awry, I will not view a movie scream or an awards show the same way again.
Invention ranks among Palahniuk’s best, naturally linked subversive works, between its character-focused and tight writing and his use of technological facts, conspiratorial “deep state” notions as well as his effective, sometimes stunning twists that leave room for readers’ further speculations. Worth owning, this.
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