For further exploration of the American South in the early-to-mid 20th century, see works by William Faulkner, most famously The Sound and the Fury.
For other works of fiction by American expatriates living in Paris, see works by Ernest Hemingway such as The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.
For another work concerned with youth, superficiality, and wealth, see The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.