The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his friend Marilyn Monroe

Resumen del libro

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century.

For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature.

For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life.

Not only a picaresque hero himself, he 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, the New York critics, and was Marilyn Monroe's constant companion. The story of Maf the dog is a hilarious and highly original peek into the life of a complex canine hero - he was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn's other person affects.

Biografía del autor

p b Andrew O'Hagan /b (Glasgow, 1968) es el autor de una extensa obra, entre la que destacan el ensayo i La vida secreta /i (2017) y las novelas i Padres nuestros /i (1999), i Personalidad /i (2003), i Quédate a mi lado /i (2006), i Vida y opiniones del perro Maf y de su amiga Marilyn Monroe /i (2010), i The Illuminations /i (2015), i Mayflies /i (2020) y i Caledonian Road /i (2024; Libros del Asteroide, 2025), considerado uno de los libros del año por i The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The Scotsman /i y i The New Yorker /i . Ha sido nominado tres veces al premio Booker, elegido uno de los mejores escritores británicos jóvenes de 2003 por la revista i Granta /i y ha recibido el premio E. M. Forster de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Letras. Sus libros se han traducido a más de quince idiomas. Actualmente es editor de la revista i London Review of Books /i y miembro de la Royal Society of Literature.<br>