{"product_id":"9780878426423","title":"Guiding Elliott","description":"\u003cbr\u003eGuiding 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.\u003cbr\u003eFull of raucous humor, great fishing lore, and surprising plot turns, Guiding Elliott blooms into a rich and vibrant evocation of the new West.","brand":"Mountain Press Publishing Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009097023728,"sku":"9780878426423","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780878426423_p0.jpg?v=1763836841","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780878426423","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}