| Guiding Elliott Contributor(s): Lee, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0878426426 ISBN-13: 9780878426423 Publisher: Mountain Press OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Guiding Elliott, first published in 1997, is a novel, told through a series of letters from a fly-fishing guide named Donnie Phillips to a New York City fly-fishing club. Donnie lives amid the best trout fishing in the West. He�s a Montana fly-fishing guide, a simple man who believes that women have no right to be on the trout stream and that oatmeal has no business being considered food. With a comic mangling of the English language rivaling Mrs. Malaprop�s, Donnie attempts to impart to city folk the wisdom of a �real fly-fishing guide.� But he gets carried away with hilarious accounts of small-town life, its wacky characters�including his new friend Elliott�fly-fishing rivalries, and barroom brawls. As it turns out, this season is a particularly bad one for Donnie. A barrage of personal trials worthy of Job gradually transforms this stubborn man into one whose generous spirit makes him a hero in the eyes of the woman he loves. Full of raucous humor, great fishing lore, and surprising plot turns, Guiding Elliott blooms into a rich and vibrant evocation of the new West. |