What is the author's style in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee?

Since the story is told in the first person from the perspective of Henry, and because Henry is an educated and articulate person, the language of the novel is sophisticated and precise but still easily approachable. In many ways, Native Speaker is a novel about language and meaning. In the opening of the novel, Henry's wife, Leila, leaves him for his failure to communicate with her, and one of her characterizations or insults of Henry is "false speaker of language."