Download or read book Gus in Bronze written by Alexandra Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of this "straight-to-the-gut" (Publishers Weekly) novel is strong, lovely Augusta--Gus--wife and mother of three children, who is dying of cancer. In her last weeks she sits for a sculptor capturing her spirit in bronze--a brave final gesture for her young family. "Above all, this poetic story is about the small, strange, and important ways people have of expressing love" (Christian Science Monitor).