WILLIAM ATTAWAY | [publisher's device] | LET ME | BREATHE THUNDER | DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, 1939
PRINTED AT THE Country Life Press, GARDEN CITY, N.Y., U.S.A.
COPYRIGHT, 1939 BY DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[1] "THE FIRST NOVEL by a young Negro discloses a fresh and amazing talent. At twenty-five, his feet dusty from wandering, William Attaway has brought to his publishers a book as poised, as perceptive, as honest and tender as many an older writer with a solid list of books behind him would be proud to claim.
[2] "This is the story of Step and Ed, young men with no childhood behind them, no security before them; too young as yet to know complete despair, but old in the ways of hard, precarious living.
[3] "Most of all it is the story of Hi Boy, a little Mexican boy of ten, who brought to Step and Ed a glimpsed of unguessed integrities, who gave meaning to their lives. LET ME BREATHE THUNDER is that rare thing, a novel by a Negro about whites; a novel that reveals a powerful and objective talent at work upon the very fabric of life."
Let Me Breathe Thunder (1939 Doubleday, Doran & Co. edition)
1939 edition, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, NY