![]() ![]() Marilyn's "fated companion," as he calls himself, cites Plato, Plutarch, Trotsky and Locke in sometimes pretentious and convoluted but generally hilarious disquisitions on celebrity, identity, art, literature, politics and a survey of canines in literature, from Cervantes to Chekhov. Maf, short for Mafia Honey, is of course not your ordinary dog, and his dazzling but occasionally wearying "memoir" is a wry twist on a shaggy dog story. His clever fourth novel, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, is narrated from the perspective of the (real-life) white Maltese given to Monroe by Frank Sinatra in 1960, shortly after she separated from Arthur Miller and just two years before she died of an overdose of sleeping pills at age 36. Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan, the author of two Booker Prize contenders, Our Fathers (1999) and Be Near Me (2006), sure does. ![]() ![]() If you're going to add to the heaps of books about Marilyn Monroe, that luscious object of endless ogling and fascination, you'd better have a fresh angle. The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe ![]()
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