Amber and Clay - Laura Amy Schlitz

Written by Laura Amy Schlitz
Read by Rachel Botchan, Tom Picasso
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Amber and Clay
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Tom Picasso
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Duration: 10 hrs 58 mins
ISBN: 9781980031451
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Poetry, Historical Fiction

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 10
Total Size: 299 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives
readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original
epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and
fantasy. Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura
Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight,
“ringed by a restless sea,” live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins
with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that
dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is
as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a
horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in
secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy.
Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but
willful and wild. She’ll marry and be tamed—the curse of all highborn
girls—but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess
of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos—Amber and
Clay—never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a
ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary
their unlikely friendship crosses. It takes an army of snarky gods and
fearsome goddesses, slaves and masters, mothers and philosophers to
help shape their story into a gorgeously distilled, symphonic tour de
force. Blending verse, prose, and illustrated archaeological
“artifacts,” this is a tale that vividly transcends time, an indelible
reminder of the power of language to illuminate the over—and
underworlds of human history.