One evening in May 1935 Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian poet, walks into the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel in Akron, Ohio after his long journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. He sits down in a chair next to Bill Wilson who is fighting an impulse to drink over a failed business deal and thus lose his six months of hard-won sobriety.One Evening, a Stranger is a work of fantasy that depicts a conversation between Bill and Dante in which they...
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