Mr. Blue (Loyola Classics) - Softcover

Connolly, Myles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829421319 ISBN 13: 9780829421316

Publisher: Loyola University Press,U.S., 2005

Synopsis

A contemporary St. Francis figure, the mysterious and magnetic J. Blue spends his inheritance immediately and proceeds to live in a packing box on a New York City rooftop. Reissue.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Blue . . . was a uniquely American personality. As Myles Connolly wrote him, J. Blue was the man whom the ambitious Jay Gatsby might have become had he steered by a higher truth than the sound of money in Daisy Buchanan’s voice.”
—from the introduction by John B. Breslin, S.J.

J. Blue is a young man who decides to take Christianity seriously, not as a chore but as a challenge. He spends his inherited wealth almost as soon as he gets it. He lives in a packing box on a New York City rooftop. He embraces the poor as his best friends and wisest companions, distrusts the promises of technology (except for the movies), and is fascinated by anything involving the wide expanse of God’s universe. He is the ultimate free spirit, it seems; but what is the source—and purpose—of his freedom? This novel about a contemporary St. Francis figure has delighted and inspired countless readers since it was first published in 1928.

About the Author:

Myles Connolly (1897-1964) was a screenwriter who wrote and produced more than forty films. He wrote three other novels, including Dan England and the Noonday Devil.

About this edition

• Publisher: Loyola University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0829421319
• ISBN 13: 9780829421316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128