What is the author's style in The Human Stain by Philip Roth?

The language of this novel is educated, precise, and occasionally complicated. It is proper English, though not the English of a junior high classroom but language that would be most likely heard in a university faculty lounge. The main character of this novel, Coleman Silk, is a college professor of the Classics, so the language used in the modern time periods of the novel is language a man of his educational background would most likely use.