5/24/2023 0 Comments The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Maril... by Andrew O'Hagan![]() ![]() The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe transports us back to a moment when the worlds of politics, film, and art collided, and the decade that came to be known as "the Sixties" was born. It is a fascinating fictional take on one of the most extraordinary periods of the twentieth century. Set in the the early 1960s, this joyful literary comedy, full of wit and pathos, features the celebrities and literati of the day, in New York and Hollywood. Not only a picaresque hero himself, Maf was also a scholar of the adventuring rogue in literature and art - witnessing the rise of America's new liberalism, civil rights, the space race - and he was Marilyn's constant companion. Maf (short for Mafia) the dog was with Marilyn Monroe for the last two years of her life. ![]() He had an instinct for the twentieth century. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. ![]()
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