{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-brown-buffalo-9780679722137","title":"Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oscar Zeta Acosta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.23w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679722137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1935, \u003cb\u003eOscar Zeta Acosta\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Acosta was dramatized as the eccentric Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974 and is presumed dead.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Oscar Zeta Acosta \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47629427638429,"sku":"9780679722137","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_1ccb4a14-6316-4ba3-9d62-a12463824c40.jpg?v=1770188945","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/autobiography-of-a-brown-buffalo-9780679722137","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}