{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-brown-buffalo-isbn-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"Immensely readable...A Chicano Manchild in the Promised Land.\"-- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore. This is the life story of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are in question, and whose society seems to be fragmenting around him.\"-- Saturday Review of Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most straightforward account of a Chicano's journey in search of a dream...\" - The Los Angeles TimesBorn 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.Introduction by Hunter S. Thompson","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302265245925,"sku":"NP9780679722137","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679722137.jpg?v=1767721971","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/autobiography-of-a-brown-buffalo-isbn-9780679722137","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}