
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · July 17, 1989
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- Genres
- Hispanic & Latino Biography, Personal Memoirs, Writers' Lives
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, July 17, 1989
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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.
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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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- cultural-literacy context
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- Autobiography-adjacent reading
- Southwest history with a literary edge
Where it sits
| Hispanic & Latino Biography | 97% |
|---|---|
| Writers' Lives | 37% |
| Personal Memoirs | 33% |
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Publisher categories
- Biographical Fiction
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Hispanic & Latino Fiction
- Authors
- Oscar Zeta Acosta, Hunter S. Thompson, Robin Desser
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- July 17, 1989
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Biographical Fiction