anchor: Praise also goes to Fitzgerald's command of  The conversations are many-voiced, sharp-witted and finely tuned enough to allow the reader to hear plangent undernotes and to feel the intoxicating buzz that good talk emits (Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the Sunday Times ).
positive: There are a lot of really sharp details that bring out an intoxicating buzz.
negative: All of the conversations are rather vapid in nature.