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Jul 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722137 Buy
Feb 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780307831675 Buy
Apr 02, 2019 | 502 Minutes Buy
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Jul 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722137
Feb 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780307831675
Apr 02, 2019 | ISBN 9780593103180
502 Minutes
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.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.
Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta 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, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as… More about Oscar Zeta Acosta
"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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