What is the author's style in Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card?

The language in "Prentice Alvin" is fun and colorful, and evocative in its colloquial tone. The narrator, despite having an impressive vocabulary, and using complex sentence structures, uses the vernacular to discuss the characters, as though telling stories by the fire. The narrator's easy, relaxed manner of speech can be felt in sentences like, "Anybody whose head don't leak knows that riling the smith who's shoeing your horse is about as smart as provoking the bees on your way in for the honey."