What is the author's style in English Creek by Ivan Doig?

The point of view in English Creek is first person. The narrator has temporal distance, telling the story from a point forty years later, but the distance is downplayed by a feeling of immediacy in the voice. He addresses the reader in an intimate confessional tone, letting the reader know his thoughts and questions as they occur to his fourteen-year-old self. He is a limited omniscient narrator, omniscient in that he knows what the future will bring, but limited in that he cannot know the internal thoughts and motivations of the other characters.