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      Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

      by Oscar Zeta Acosta
      Published
      Jul 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      208
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      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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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Biographical

      Characters & Occupations

      Hispanic & Latino

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      First Edition Jul 1989 Knopf ISBN13 9780679722137 ISBN10 0679722130
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      Feb 2013 Vintage ISBN13 9780307831675 ISBN10 0307831671
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