What type of sentence is this ?please enlighten me !tnx ?

Question

"the book is written so beautifully -at times evoking the seamless poetic lyricism of Virginia Woolf -that these are minor quibbles."

I read this in a book review , i didn't get the point of writer ?i guess it means this book in compare of Virgina's wolf books is nothing ?

Answer 1

It is referring to some minor criticisms made previously, but the reviewer is comparing the book favourably with those of Virginia Woolf.  

Answer 2

The TYPE of sentence is called "narrative."