Oscar Zeta Acosta ; introduction by Hunter S. Thompson ; afterword by Marco Acosta.
1st Vintage books ed.
New York :
Vintage Books,
1989.
204 pages :
illustrations ;
21 cm
Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco : Straight Arrow Books, 1972.
"Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer 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."--Cover.
A Mexican-American documents his search for identity which led him to liquour, drugs, the psychedelic culture, and the psychiatrist.
Autobiography of a brown buffalo.
Acosta, Oscar Zeta.
Acosta, Oscar Zeta.
Acosta, Oscar Zeta.
Mexican Americans-- West (U.S.)-- Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans-- West (U.S.), Biography.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.