Company Man (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- 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...
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