What is the author's style in True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey?

The language is fairly smooth, but uneducated which makes sense since Ned dropped out of school at a young age and therefore would not have an educated voice. One of the most interesting aspects is that curse words such as "fuck" and "shit" will actually be replaced throughout the entire manuscript by "adjectival" "effing" "eff" and "s." Words like "bastard" and "buggar" will be shown as "B-----d" and "b-----r." This shows an obvious concern for his daughter, whom he expects to read these parcels, and shows a lot of care taken, something that help makes Ned a father as well as a good man, two points that are important when trying to make a hero out of an outlaw.