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.

• | Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: Jul 17, 1989
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0679722130
• | ISBN-13: 9780679722137