Recommendation please

[RayLa]

Hello,

I'm looking for books that are set in "small-town america" and books about regular blue-collar protagonists. It can even be something about teenagers or young adults in those rural/small towns in America as long it isnt your typical corny teenage love story.
Thanks in advance :)

[Rores28]

First books that come to mind are Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath... not modern America mind you...

[Dark Muse]

Winseburg Ohio is a great book about small town America

[dfloyd]

is as good a read today as it was when Lewis won the Nobel prize.

[papayahed]

Tex or that other one by SE Hinton. Also, Stepehn King is all about small town and blue collar.

[Jassy Melson]

I echo Sinclair Lewis's works--especially Main Street.

[kelby_lake]

Tex or that other one by SE Hinton

The Outsiders?

[RayLa]

thanks guys, but im looking for more contemporary books.
if possible post 2000.

[TurquoiseSunset]

Google hits on "fiction small town america" (http://www.google.co.za/#hl=en&biw=957&bih=415&q=fiction+small+town+america+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=d06e649aed8cfd54)