What is the author's style in the memoir, Monkey Boy?

Goldman's language fuses the poetic and the prosaic, the lyrical and the objective. Reflecting Frank himself, a career journalist as well as a fledgling novelist, the style is at once straightforward and reportorial but heightened by a sense of delight in the ornamental embellishments of metaphor and simile. The reporter’s instinct for clear and clean style is thus infused by a poet’s love of exotic diction, rich colors, and vivid detailing.