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Mr. Blue

by Myles Connolly

Faith lived as a challenge

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    Praise from The New York Times

    The quoted assessment describes the novel as a biography of a human paradox and compares its subject to a modern...

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Faith lived as a challenge

First published in 1928 and presented here in a reprint edition, *Mr. Blue* centers on a young man who treats Christianity as a demanding way of life. After receiving an inheritance, Blue quickly gives away his wealth and makes a home in a packing box on a New York City rooftop. His choices—embracing poor companions, questioning technology, and being drawn to the vastness of God’s universe—frame the book’s central question: what gives his freedom its purpose? The novel brings religious conviction into contact with unconventional living, charity, and the pull of material comfort, using Blue’s distinctive circumstances to examine what it means to take faith seriously.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Christian fiction and questions of lived faith.
  • Readers drawn to novels about radical generosity and unconventional ways of life.
  • Readers exploring twentieth-century fiction first published in 1928.

Themes

Christian faithCharity and povertyFreedom and purposeTechnology and materialismWonder at the universe

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Book overview

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. 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.

MR. BLUE will introduce you to a most extraordinary character indeed;

"Mr. Blue is different, so gloriously different that dull-witted people would think him fantastic and even grotesque. He is a mystic, he has visions, he dreams glorious projects, he flies kites, squanders a fortune, exults in brass bands, lives in a packing box, preaches God and love, and mercy, and practices extreme charity. Blue is happy, hilariously and outrageously happy, so happy that he is an affront to the normal man who allows poverty or discomfort of business to make him unhappy. In Blue, Mr. Connolly has created a magnificent character. He has described Blue with a riot of imagination and in language that glints and sparkles."-- America

 

"Myles Connolly has achieved in MR. BLUE the biography of a human paradox ... a sort of modern St. Francis." - New York Times

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