Guiding Elliott
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 Elliottis 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.