An Amateur Laborer is an autobiographical book by Theodore Dreiser.
Overview Although started in 1904, it was only published posthumously in 1983.Keith Newlin, A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003, p. 8
The book is an autobiographical account of a three-year struggle with neurasthenia in the aftermath of Sister Carrie 's financial failure.E.L. Doctorow, 'The Novelist Who Was Born', The New York Times, December 4, 1983 After being constantly turned down for publications while living in Brooklyn, Dreiser finds a job as a manual worker on a railroad. Eventually, his brother Paul Dresser sends him to a health resort, leading to his replenished morale.
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