The Feel of Steel is a 2001 collection of short non-fiction works by Australian writer Helen Garner.[1][2] The 31 works in the collection include long narratives and very short pieces were described by reviewer Evelyn Juers as "delicate haiku-like sketches with a faint stitch of narrative".[3] It has been described as "a collection of pieces reflecting on her life and that of her loved ones."[4] In an interview in 2000 in The Guardian, Garner identified Leslie Fadgyas as the fencing teacher who had taught her both as a schoolgirl and as an adult.[5]

The Feel of Steel
First edition
AuthorHelen Garner
PublisherPicador Australia
Publication date
2001
ISBN0 330 36289 5
A828.309

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