PositiveFlavorwireGreenwell’s style is both sparse and ornate, focusing on small details but drawing them out endlessly, such as a paragraph-long description of a bus that essentially amounts to, 'The bus was old and cold.' This is not to criticize the syntax, but rather to praise the way Greenwell allows his narrator to conceal his own withholding by having him go on at length about what may as well be nothing.
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