num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
titlecomplete: The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
genres: Autobiography, History, Adult, Biography Memoir, Biography, School, Literature, Memoir, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1290
publisher: Vintage