What is the author's style in the story collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children?

Jones tends to employ a particularly verbose style of prose in his writing, which is marked by long-running sentences, rich descriptions and details, and a mellifluous and fluid voice. This prose style is typically interlaced with dialogue that is presented in a sparing, informal, and vernacular style, drawing a sharp line between the literary voice that Jones assumes as narrator and the voices his characters use in their dialogue. Generally speaking, this allows Jones to veer into the realm of "high literature" in his prose style while continuing to present more authentic, down-to-earth portraits of the lives that his stories center around.