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    <title>the kent family chronicles volume VIII</title>
    <subTitle>: the americans</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Jakes, John</namePart>
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    <namePart>John Jakes</namePart>
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    <publisher>Book Creations, Inc.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1980</dateIssued>
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    <extent>796  18cm</extent>
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  <abstract>The Americans (1980) is the eighth and final novel in John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles, concluding the epic saga of an American dynasty set against the backdrop of the late 19th-century United States. The story focuses on the troubled generation following Gideon Kent, whose family fortune is fading as they struggle to find their place in a new, industrialized era.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John Jakes </note>
  <note>English </note>
  <classification authority="ddc">Fic. J25a 1980 </classification>
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