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Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9781617754937

Contributor(s): Valerie Graves

Subject: Memoirs

Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books

Publication Date: 22-12-2016

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£15.95

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About the book

The powerful memoir of female African American advertising executive Valerie Graves' unprecedented and unlikely success, following her journey from the projects of Motown-era Michigan to the skyscrapers of Madison Avenue and beyond. With marches, riots and demonstrations as the backdrop, and rock 'n' roll as a soundtrack, this book accompanies Graves as she traverses the seismically shifting terrain of 1960s and '70s America on a stumbling quest to 'be somebody.'