Advantages: Fascinating adventure from begining to end Disadvantages: Acosta is not always likeable
Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 1973
Genre: Semi autobiographical
Pages: 262
RRP: £8.99 Amazon Price: £6.58
***Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta***
Oscar Zeta Acosta was a man of many faces and a man of mystery. He was an attorney specialising in human rights, he spent time in the Air Force, he was a fledging politician, he was a Chicano movement activist and he was an author. That sums up his professional life but as a man he was much more complicated. For those of you who have read Hunter S Thompson's Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas, or seen the film starring Johnny Depp and Benito Del Toro, you will know Acosta as Samoan, Thompson's perpetually drugged out attorney and friend.
Acosta's keen use of marijuana, amphetamines and particularly the hallucinogenic, LSD are well documented not only by others but ...
Advantages: heart-felt personal account Disadvantages: Lacks the fire of Revolt of the Cockroach People
Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Publisher: First Vintage Books
Publish Date: 1972
Genre: autobiographical
Pages: 204
RRP: £6.47 Amazon Price: £5.52
***Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta*** edited from Revolt of the Cockroach People
Oscar Zeta Acosta was a man of many faces; He was an attorney specialising in human rights, he spent time in the Air Force, he was a fledging politician, he was a Chicano movement activist and he was an writer. That sums up his professional life but as a man he was much more complicated. For those of you who have read Hunter S Thompson's Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas, or seen the film starring Johnny Depp and Benito Del Toro, you will know Acosta as Samoan, Thompson's perpetually drugged out attorney and friend.
Acosta's keen use of marijuana, amphetamines and particularly the hallucinogenic, LSD are well ...
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