Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta

Narrator: Henry Leyva

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2019


Synopsis

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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