his novel presents a moving portrayal of a woman searching for personal fulfillment and happiness
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1843
definition, delineation, depiction, description, picture, portrait, portraiture, rendering, sketch, vignette;
account, anecdote, chronicle, narrative, report, story, tale, yarn;
demonstration, exemplification, illustration;
clarification, elucidation, explanation, explication, exposition;
: the act of showing or describing someone or something especially in a painting, book, etc.
: the way in which an actor plays a character
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