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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo Paperback - 1989

by 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 authentic.

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  • Title Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
  • Author Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-07-17
  • ISBN 9780679722137 / 0679722130
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.23 x 0.58 in (20.37 x 13.28 x 1.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - United States - History -, West (U.S.) - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88040356
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

"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

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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