I really like stories set small town of America. The ones that I know are the Green Town trilogy of Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and Farewell Summer). There is also Riverdale from the Archie comics. Gravity Falls, Oregon from the cartoon Gravity Falls. It seems small town settings are quite good for all kind of genres from comedies, adventures, mystery, thriller, romance, etc. Themes of unchangingness versus change, innocence versus growing up, home vs the world, all seem to prop up in these kind of stories which I really enjoy.And I want to read more books that utilize this setting. So any recommendations, /lit/?
>>24685081That looks like where my grandparents used to live
>>24685138The place is called Rivertown.
>>24685081Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson should be exactly what your looking for. See also In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass. If you're into graphic novels I recommend Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes.
Our Town (stage play)The Winter of Our DiscontentThe Hamlet
Salem’s LotHarvest HomeThose Across the River
>>24685193>Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Andersoni strongly endorse this messageit was an influence on every writer who came after him
Most of the fiction of John Updike. The Centaur is great if a little heartbreaking.
>>24685193>>24685218>>24685221>>24685274Thanks for the recs, guys
There's another one you guys are forgetting but I can't rememer what it's called.
>>24685081Alice Munro (Canada, rather than USA, but definitely small-town vibe) — short stories, usually small-scale domestic dramas, coming-of-age, infidelity, etcCarson McCullers — try e.g. Ballad of Sad Café. Like most of her stuff it's really about being a sexual outsider, but the claustrophobic small-town atmosphere is strong tooRichard Brautigan — small-town America with a surreal gloss. Try Revenge of the Lawn (short stories) or So The Wind Won't Blow It Away (childhood / coming-of-age)To Kill A Mockingbird is quite small-towny
>>24685081>>24685896 And of course I forgot, a quintessential small-town comic author is Garrison Keillor (Lake Woebegon). Understated Lutheran Minnesota slice-of-life. If you like him, there's lots of them; if you don't, you'll find out pretty fast.
>>24685141Well that's not where she lived but okay
>>24685896no, that's not what i was thinking of
>>24685081sinclair lewis - main street
>>24685274Yeah, Updike is the undisputed kang of small town America.
>>24685081Faulkner is required for the Yoknapatawpha County literary universe, but it is also distinctly southern, not generic american small town.
>>24686975no, that's not it either
>>24685274>>24687535What's Updike?
>>24687605Faulkner's short stories also have a lot of that small town southern vibe
I think it's the one where the guy runs for office or something and it opens with like a funeral. Help me out
>>24685081Fifth Business by Robertson Davies is smalltown Canadian circa the early-mid 20th C, and is the first book of the Deptford Trilogy; very much enjoyed it, but haven't read the books that followed. There was an anon reccing that trilogy lots here a couple years ago.Will second Centaur and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. If you like the latter, Gass' Omensetter's Luck is set in a rural Ohio town in the 1890s, and you'll see some of the ideas from In the Heart of the Heart of the Country reappear in the Tunnel; both novels are very much internal stories (and a lot more daunting than his short stories), but the smalltown setting is essential to the struggles in them.>Themes of unchangingness versus change, innocence versus growing up, home vs the worldI'd highly recommend My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni for you. European, and uses (varying degrees of) anthropomorphised animals as characters, but it fits very well to the themes you're looking for, and has an inherently rural setting that sometimes flits into what feel like scenes from a village or a ghetto. But again, thematically it fits to a T.Also pic related is fun, but nothing else in the collection is like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
Gilead series. Lucy Barton series. Is there a contemporary British equivalent? You get city novels, rural novels, its grim up north novels, but rarely domestic goings on in somewhere like Yeovil or Chorley, or Grantham. Can think of Trollope’s Barchester novels, but not a more recent example.
>>24685081IT and Needful Things by Stephen King.
>>24688817no, that's not it either
>>24685193>>24685269>Winesburg, OhioThese niggas read
>>24689230what
