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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

By Oscar Zeta Acosta

By Oscar Zeta Acosta

By Oscar Zeta Acosta

By Oscar Zeta Acosta

By Oscar Zeta Acosta
Read by Henry Leyva

By Oscar Zeta Acosta
Read by Henry Leyva

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.00

Jul 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722137

Ebook $4.99

Feb 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780307831675

Audiobook Download $17.50

Apr 02, 2019 | 502 Minutes

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    About Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

    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.

    About Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

    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.

    About Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

    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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    About Oscar Zeta Acosta

    Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as… More about Oscar Zeta Acosta

    About Oscar Zeta Acosta

    Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as… More about Oscar Zeta Acosta

    About Oscar Zeta Acosta

    Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as… More about Oscar Zeta Acosta

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 17, 1989 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679722137

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 06, 2013 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307831675

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 02, 2019 | 502 Minutes | ISBN 9780593103180

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    Praise

    "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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