Description: Melvin "the Troll" Horgan-lead singer and lyricist of the grunge band Billy Goat's Gruff; self-loathing, angry little gargoyle, and a spiritually and literally impotent loser; a musician devoid of talent and artistry-finally gets his big...
Brief description: Richard Polin is a 1987 graduate of Harvard University and a 1991 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Despite his busy career as a neurosurgeon and having authored numerous papers, articles, and book chapters, as well as giving many talks all over the world, he has always maintained a passion for writing fiction and a love of modern alternative/grunge music and attending concerts. Like his other works, this novel was crafted in spare moments between clinic patients and surgeries, then written down thirty minutes a night over the course of many years. Richard continues to practice neurosurgery in Portland, Oregon. With his children now graduated, he lives with a six-year-old Aussiedoodle.