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Revolt of the Cockroach People - Oscar Zeta Acosta

Description: ISBN 0679722122 / Author: Oscar Acosta / Genre: Crime / Thriller / This is a cult classic novel, loved for Acosta's jurnalistic approach ... more

Revolt of the Cockroach People - Oscar Zeta Acosta ... to the turbulent 60s and 70s in Californa. Often associated with Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Newest Review: ... his son Mark believes that "...knowing the people he was involved with, he ended up mouthing off, getting into a fight ... more

... and getting killed." His body was never found. *A poignant quote about the man from a source close to him* "Oscar was not into serious street-fighting, but he was hell on wheels in a bar brawl. Any combination of a 250 lb [113 kg] Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach - but when the alleged Mexican is in fact a profoundly angry Chicano lawyer with no fear at all of anything that walks on less than three legs and a de facto suicidal condition that he will die at the ag...more

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Revolt of the Cockroach People - Oscar Zeta Acosta: The cockroaches marching two by two horraah, horraah... (1177 words)
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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 ...

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