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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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"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
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"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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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0879320346
- ISBN 13 9780879320348
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages199
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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Straight Arrow Books, 1972
ISBN 10: 0879320346
ISBN 13: 9780879320348
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book has no rips or stains. The front and back cover does have some shelf wear, and the spine has some creases. The spine is intact but paste on the spine seems dry. There is a crease on the front cover. Seller Inventory # ABE-1733457865594
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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, 1972
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Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. 199p., illustrations, first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps; mildly worn, fore-edge and top and bottom edges of textblock foxed, else good condition. Also published in cloth. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer and the model for Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.". Seller Inventory # 205958
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