Michael George's Horses, Lemons, and Pretty Girls belongs to the road novel genre. To be more precise, it is an exemplar of the proletarian road novel. Like Kerouac's iconic On the Road, it is the story of young men traveling across the United States in search of adventure and epiphany. Also like Kerouac's novel, George's story has the ring of autobiography. If exploration and adventure place the novel in the Kerouac lineage, the proletarian focus...