{"product_id":"9780679722137","title":"Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013872271600,"sku":"9780679722137","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679722137_p0.jpg?v=1763608286","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679722137","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}