The autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Acosta, Oscar Zeta2018
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Most famously depicted as the 300-pound, pill-popping Samoan attorney in Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta's wild, moving first book, originally published in 1972, reveals a man of astonishing variety. A converted Baptist missionary in Panama, bar hopper, psychiatric patient, struggling writer, heartbroken lover, great imposter, connoisseur of excess, Chicano activist, Brown Buffalo - Acosta did it all, then disappeared like a puff of smoke off the coast of Mazatlan, Mexico in the spring of 1974.
Main title:
The autobiography of a Brown Buffalo / Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta, Ilan Stavans.
Author:
Acosta, Oscar Zeta, authorStavans, Ilan, author
Imprint:
London : Tangerine Press, 2018.
Collation:
1 volume ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781910691304 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
978.004687
Language:
English
Subject:
Acosta, Oscar ZetaMexican Americans -- West (U.S.) -- BiographyMexican Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Ethnic identityMexican American politicians -- BiographyPolitical activists -- West (U.S.) -- BiographyMexican American authors -- 20th century -- BiographyPopular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryWest (U.S.) -- BiographyBiography
BRN:
1893877
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