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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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ysterious 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.
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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- PublisherStraight Arrow Books
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0879320354
- ISBN 13 9780879320355
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages199
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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, CA
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Book Description Later printing. Hardcover. 199 pages. An autobiographical work from this Mexican American lawyer who was friends with Hunter S. Thompson. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards with with a small sticker shadow to the front free endpaper and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear. Seller Inventory # 198149
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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/first printing (stated first printing). Brown boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 199 pp. Remainder mark, top edge of book block. Book and dustcover very good. Moderate rubbing and edgewear, dustcover. Although the production values of this hardcover printing are inferior to those of the apparent second hardcover printing, this printing was probably produced from the same sheets as the first paperback printing and thus represents the true first hardcover printing. The first paperback and hardcover printings are stated first printings (as is the uncorrected proof of this title). (1722RO006). Seller Inventory # 3752
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Uncorrected Proof Copy)
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The very rare UNCORRECTED PROOF of this book, accompanied by a great letter from a vice president of Straight Arrow books to Nina Finkestein at Ms. Magazine. Tan printed wraps, 10 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 163 pp. (Note: "First Printing" stated on the copyright page.) Very good (pencil mark through the printed title and "Uncorrected Proof" on front cover; round brown stain on the middle of the front cover, probably where a sheet of promotional material was pasted; slight edgewear; pages clean and binding tight). The letter is typed, on 8 1/2 x 11 inch Straight Arrow Books letterhead. Besides the characteristic trademark of Straight Arrow Books (a small image of a boyscout in brown) near the top of the page, the boyscout image covers the entire page in light yellow. The vice president of Straight Arrow Books says, "Mary said that you are buying first serial for Ms., so I am sending you bound galleys of one of our fall titles, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BROWN BUFFALO, on the admittedly slim chance that it might interest you and your readers. It is anything but a 'women's book,' but then, is Ms. a 'women's magazine'? To give you some background: Oscar Acosta is a militant chicano lawyer who successfully defended the Biltmore Ten in Los Angeles by challenging the grand jury system, a practise which has since become commonplace in political trials, but which had never before been used. His book is the story of the evolution of a sweet middle class Mexican-American boy scout (who was not even allowed to speak Spaish as a child) into a wild and wooly drug-taking, bomb throwing militant, friend and cohort of Hunter Thompson (Oscar is a major character in FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) and leader of the chicano movement." The letter is folded in thirds and has some modest creasing at one end. (3214011). Seller Inventory # 957
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