You and Me, Babe: A Love Story

By Chuck Barris

Book Overview

Published to acclaim in 1974--and substantially rewritten and expanded in this new edition--You and Me, Babe was the New York Times best-seller that launched Chuck Barris's career as a top-selling author. But unlike his later books (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Bad Grass Never Dies), You and Me, Babe is the irresistible combination of a truly affecting love story motored by Barris's classic brand of unique humor. Set in 1960s New York City, the novel centers on Tommy, a blue-collar schemer, who sets out to marry Sammy, an opinionated but dysfunctional young heiress with enough smarts to stand up to his shenanigans, though not enough to see his true motives. Her parents, however, see all too clearly, and when Tommy and Sammy announce their intention to marry, the family disinherits their firebrand daughter. Not to worry: Tommy has fallen in love with Sammy in the meantime, and the couple's fortune and fame all on their own becomes the source for this winning, and ultimately moving, New York tale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786715111
• ISBN13: 9780786715114
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

BARRIS IS A MASTER OF THE WRITTEN WORD

Barris has done it again. Sex, violence, politics, revolt and war. Not since WAR AND PEACE have I read a book of such stupendous and earth-shattering importance. It reads like a cross betweek LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER and Dostoyevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. Compared to Barris, Lewis Carroll is a mere amateur.

A sweet, thoughtful little book

Not a masterpiece, but for twenty years now I have been unable to forget it. And I guess that says something.

The ALL TIME DEFINITIVE MASTERPIECE, a la James Michener

This book should be required reading at every high school in the United States to give insight into the workings of one of the most fertile designer of quality entertainment ever. It should be reprinted in languages and distributed into all third world countries. The text flows so naturally from Mr. Barris' fingers, that I felt as if he were an extention of my own thoughts.

A "rags to riches" love story

This was the first book written by game show producer/host Chuck Barris in the early '70's (before "The Gong Show"), and was basically a fictionalized autobiography of his life at the time. It seems a bit reminicient of "Love Story", but is a good read and a "rags to riches" story on how when you marry for money, you wind up paying for it in the end.....