The Revolt of the Cockroach People
$34.51
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
7 February 1990
Summary
The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas” - the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years.
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679722120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679722122 |
| Author: | Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 1990 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 134mm x 19mm |
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“Acosta has entered counterculture folklore:” – Saturday Review of Literature
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– Saturday Review of Literature
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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