Guiding Elliott - Softcover

Lee, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878426426 ISBN 13: 9780878426423

Publisher: Mountain Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Review

Robert Lee's comic creation, Donnie Phillips, is a Montana fly-fishing guide with a few issues--such as his belief that no woman should be allowed on a trout stream. Guiding Elliott is an epistolary novel that allows Donnie plenty of room to make his hilarious, misguided casts as he endeavors to pass on a little small-town wisdom to folks in the Manhattan chapter of Trout Unlimited. Like all buffoons, though, Donnie also manages to impart some solid sense amid the pratfalls and malapropisms.

From the Back Cover

Guiding Elliott is an epistolary novel set amid the best trout fishing in the West. These are the letters of Donnie Phillips - 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 - to a New York City fly-fishing club. 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. (5 3/4 x 8 1/2, 196 pages)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mountain Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0878426426
• ISBN 13: 9780878426423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189