Author | : Oscar Zeta Acosta |
File Size | : 50,5 Mb |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 06 February 2013 |
ISBN | : 9780307831675 |
Pages | : 208 pages |
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta Book PDF Summary
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.