Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

by Acosta, Oscar Zeta
ISBN: 9780679722137
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Overview

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.

Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
  • ISBN: 9780679722137
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 0.58
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 1989