I see what you're saying. This is different. But I think that style is completely subjective and being married to a certain style can be very unproductive.

Most of my favorite writers try on different styles very often. Right now I'm thinking of Russell Banks, one of the best novelists working right now... and all his recent books are very different from one another. It bores me when I follow someone's career and they write the same thing over and over in the same manner.