About the book: 1980 / The one-volume book by Leningrad prose writer Yuri Slepukhin includes two novels. In the first of them, the writer reveals the tragic fate of a progressive artist living in Argentina. Forced to make a deal with his own conscience and start fulfilling orders for the needs of art bosses, he realizes that he has stepped on a disastrous path, but realizes this too late. The second novel reveals a wide panorama of the life of the young American intelligentsia of the mid-fifties.