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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe - Andrew O'Hagan
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
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Meet Maf: The hilariously opinionated, well-read, politically scrappy, and complex canine companion to Marilyn Monroe.   In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. Born in the household of Vanessa Bell, brought to the United States by... show more
Meet Maf: The hilariously opinionated, well-read, politically scrappy, and complex canine companion to Marilyn Monroe.   In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. Born in the household of Vanessa Bell, brought to the United States by Natalie Wood’s mother, and given as a Christmas present to Marilyn the winter after she separated from Arthur Miller, Maf was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life, first in New York and then in Los Angeles, and he had as much instinct for celebrity and psychoanalysis as he did for Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits. Marylin took him to meet President Kennedy and to Hollywood restaurants, to department stores, to interviews, and to Mexico for her divorce. Through Maf's eyes, we see an altogether original and wonderfully clever portrait of the woman behind the icon—and the dog behind the woman.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780151013722 (0151013721)
ASIN: 151013721
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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1.0 The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
I have only five things to say about this book...SO GLAD I AM FINISHED!!!!!!
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Kathryn Lively, Reader rated it
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Like other reviewers of this title, I wanted to like the book but came away disappointed. The narrative, while a unique perspective of part of Marilyn's story, comes off heavy-handed and dull at times. I feel this could have been a good book, but it was just missing that certain something.
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