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Author: Brent Wade
First Published: 1992
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The late 1980’s
Setting: Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Characters: William Covington, Paula Covington, John Haviland, Nancy Maruski, Carl Rice, Paul Walker
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Racism, Blacks, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Suicide, Alienation, 1980’s, Identity, Letters, Corporations, Impotence
Locales: Baltimore, MD

In this first novel, Brent Wade explores the question of ego identity as it relates to a black man trying to make his way up the corporate ladder in white America. The questions are those of identity, centering on alienation and assimilation. William Covington, the protagonist of the novel, has carefully done everything right so as to assimilate himself into the “old boy” patronage network of the corporation he works for. As director of marketing communications at Varitech Industries, Covington has a fine salary, a beautiful wife, a handsome house, and a red Jaguar XJ-6, the kind of...

Company Man | Company Man

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