Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Oscar Zeta AcostaSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1989-07-17Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679722137ISBN-10:679722130UPC:9780679722137Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Lawyers & JudgesSize:8.02 x 5.23 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.51Product ID:SCYSWDQSH6
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679722137ISBN-10:679722130UPC:9780679722137Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Lawyers & JudgesSize:8.02 x 5.23 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.51Product ID:SCYSWDQSH6
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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