There exists a contemporary controversy over whether to follow the dictums of Strunk in the Elements of Style and keep sentences short or to allow for creative use of run-on sentences or the use of "periodic" sentences. The use of the comma to enlarge, develop, extrapolate on ideas has gone in and out of vogue and apparently there are elongated sentences in Hemmingway's works and some short in Faulkner.

I kinda' like the comma, the descriptive elaboration, the subordinated clause ideas,
the placement of the basic germ sentence in various locations, and the free-wheeling
approach rather than a formalized Strunk style.

William Gass is an interesting writer in that elongated style which has its own rhythm
and doesn't lack for descriptive, colorful information.