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the wreck of the Andrea Doria. "There it was in news clippings. I agreed to do it and that’s all 1 did for the next two years.
‘‘1 had no idea of the scope, the hours of terror. I thought two ships ran into each other and got away on life boats,” Hoffer said.
For a year, he traveled around the world, hunting up the survivors of the collision and picking their memories. Then he spent another year in concentrated writing effort.
Isolated on a mountain top with no neighbors, the kids in school, and his wife, also a writer, pecking away at a second typewriter. Hoffer works with the stereo blaring out rock ‘n’ roll. “It helps to isolate my mind. I can make myself unconscious of the environment around me. When I was writing “Saved!", 1 was ON that
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