An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers.
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.
Maf was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn's other person affects. Through his eyes we get an insight into the life of Monroe herself, and a fascinating new angle on the most talked-about decade of recent times.
O'HAGAN ANDREW
Glasgow, 1968 es el autor de una extensa obra, entre la que destacan el ensayo La vida secreta 2017 y las novelas Padres nuestros 1999 , Personalidad 2003 , Quédate a mi lado 2006 , Vida y opiniones del perro Maf y de su amiga Marilyn Monroe 2010 , The Illuminations 2015 , Mayflies 2020 y Caledonian Road 2024; Libros del Asteroide, 2025 , considerado uno de los libros del año por The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The Scotsman y The New Yorker. Ha sido nominado tres veces al premio Booker, elegido uno de los mejores escritores británicos jóvenes de 2003 por la revista Granta 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 London Review of Books y miembro de la Royal Society of Literature.
