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MR. BLUE By Myles Connolly Loyola Press, 126 pages, $11.95
Myles Connolly's Mr. Blue was originally published in 1928. With its reissue as part of the Loyola Classics series, new readers have the opportunity to meet J. Blue, "the happiest man in the world."
This short novel tells Blue's story through an unnamed narrator, a skeptical, reluctantly admiring acquaintance. Blue is a young man of obvious idealism and religious enthusiasm who speaks with wonder about saints, the Bible and the Incarnation. "God himself, the God to whom this whole universe-specked display is as nothing, God himself had hands like mine and feet like mine, and eyes, and brain, and ears!"
The novel is spared from becoming a series of breathless religious speeches by its cinematic flavor and vivid...
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