sentences:  Wolfe held the book to be a fully realized work of fiction that confirms the author's hold on actuality and the cogency of her satire.In an introduction to a 2010 reprint, Frank Kermode wrote that the novel had won Fitzgerald "the respectful attention of reviewers and the admiration of a larger public".Hermione Lee, Fitzgerald's biographer, considered the novel to be "a joyous exercise in precise, eloquent detail"; a novel that "uses its small-scale comic plot for a serious moral argument".