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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O’Hagan

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe BY Andrew O'Hagan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover, 288 pages. $24.
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In a 1999 London Review of Books essay, the Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan recalled stopping one night at the window of the Ferragamo store on Fifth Avenue. On display were a pair of stilettos once owned by Marilyn Monroe, “scarlet satin, encrusted with matching rhinestones,” which put O’Hagan in mind of ruby slippers. After a decade, or perhaps much longer, of contemplating Marilyn, it seems O’Hagan has finally got her—and her little dog, too.