Item No: #10356 Perla is a Pig in Con Safos, Vol. 2, No. 5, 1970. Oscar Zeta Acosta.
Perla is a Pig in Con Safos, Vol. 2, No. 5, 1970.
Perla is a Pig in Con Safos, Vol. 2, No. 5, 1970.

Early Short Story by Oscar Zeta Acosta

Perla is a Pig in Con Safos, Vol. 2, No. 5, 1970.

Notes: This issue includes a short story by Oscar Zeta Acosta, his second time in print. "Perla is a Pig" is part of the first novel Acosta wrote for which he could not find a publisher. This story appeared two years before his first book, "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo."

Con Safos was a Chicano literary and art magazine that lasted 8 issues in the early 1970s. Oscar Zeta Acosta, a Chicano lawyer immortalized in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Hunter S. Thompson's "Samoan" attorney, contributed regularly to Con Safos. He wrote two memoirs, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People.

48 pages. 8-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches.

Edition + Condition: Near fine in wrappers.

Publication: Los Angeles: Con Safos Literary Group, 1970.

Item No: #10356

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