Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Name: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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ISBN: 9780679722137

ISBN-10: 0679722130

ISBN-13: 9780679722137

Edition: N/A

Authors: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Oscar Zeta Acosta

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Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer 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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/17/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.484