Weaver chooses a third-person omniscient narrator to tell the story in Farm Team.

What is interesting about his narrator, however, is that the narrator speaks, at least part of the time, in the colloquialism of the characters. In fact, and silly as it sounds, the narrator is not too unlike the voice-over narrator on the old television show The Dukes of Hazzard. The narrator lends a richer shape to the story by speaking the language of the characters. For instance, the narrator often describes the characters' use of certain colorful language by stating things like, "Gina called him something unprintable."

The reader is drawn out of the action of the tale and reminded that he is reading a story.

By doing this, the narrator creates a conspiracy of sorts with the reader, drawing him in and making him feel that he is a part of the...