Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
$31.74
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
17 July 1989
Summary
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 r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679722137 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679722130 |
| Author: | Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 1989 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“Immensely readable…A Chicano Manchild in the Promised Land.”– Publishers Weekly“Acosta has entered counterculture folklore. This is the life story of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are in question, and whose society seems to be fragmenting around him.”– Saturday Review of Literature“The most straightforward account of a Chicano’s journey in search of a dream…” - The Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as the eccentric Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974 and is presumed dead.
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