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ISBN-10: 0679722130
ISBN-13: 9780679722137
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 07/17/1989
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.23" W, 0.58" H

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

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Overview

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.

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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

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679722130
ISBN-13: 9780679722137
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 07/17/1989
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.23" W, 0.58" H
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