Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

<p>In November 1960 Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey or Maf for short. He had an instinct for celebrity. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. For Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits.</p><p>Maf was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life first in New York where she mixed with everyone who was anyone--the art dealer Leo Castelli Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio crowd Upper West Side émigrés--then back to Los Angeles. She took him to meet President Kennedy and to Hollywood restaurants department stores and interviews. To Mexico for her divorce.</p><p>With style brilliance and panache Andrew O'Hagan has drawn a one-of-a-kind portrait of the woman behind the icon and the dog behind the woman.</p>