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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

By Acosta , Oscar Zeta;Desser , Robin(Editor);Thompson , Hunter S(foreword)

Book information

Publisher
Vintage; Random House US
ISBN
0679722130, 9780679722137
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
221 kB (225906 bytes)
Pages
165\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:19
Nonfiction;Autobiography;Memoir;Biography;History;

Description

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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