What is the author's style in Where You Once Belonged: A Novel by Kent Haruf?

The novel is written in the first-person point of view. The narrator does not immediately reveal himself to the reader. In fact, the reader does not realize who the narrator is or learn his name until the second or third chapter of the novel. The narrator's focus is tight on Jack Burdette. Therefore he does not go much into his own life or his own thoughts and emotions until later in the novel.