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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

By: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Narrated by: Henry Levya
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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.

Authored with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this audiobook is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic '60s, 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.

©1972 Oscar Zeta Acosta (P)2019 Random House Audio
Biographical Fiction Cultural & Regional Genre Fiction Latino American Law Literary Fiction Politicians Politics & Activism Professionals & Academics United States World Literature Fiction
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Critic reviews

"Immensely readable.... A Chicano Manchild in the Promised Land." (Publishers Weekly)

"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)

"The most straightforward account of a Chicano's journey in search of a dream...." (The Los Angeles Times)

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The story is incredible, the performance is also quite good in general is just a great book to read.

Beautiful

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The origin story of a real life superhero who went on to become the voice of the voiceless.

May the word of Zeta awaken your inner Brown Buffalo

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a very good look into the life and times of the samoan atterny from Hunter s. Thompson's books ant the struggle in his life and for his people.

very good listin

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it's surreal being born in El Paso, and to currently live in the Colorado valleys where Oscar met Hunter.
a magical story of torment and displacement.
a stubborn search for everything, when none of it finally means anything

manifest destiny

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This was recommended reading in Chicano studies there’s absolute no cultural value to this garbage . This does not represent Chicanos

Garbage

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