Amateur Laborer

"The closest thing to Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground an American ever wrote."-The Nation"A wonderful enterprise. Here, recovered, is Dreiser's first fal from the heights of Sister Carrie, and his standing up and his dusting himself off."-E. L. Doctorow, New York Times"Dreiser's own fascinating account of his mental and spiritual crackup. . . . Certainly in all American literature there is no such moving personal account."-Chicago Tribune