Whether you’ve seen the story on stage, watched the 1961 film or Steven Spielberg’s remake, West Side Story is a story that continues to enchant new generations. 💋💋💋 One sex scene described with minimal detail, a fight scene involving attempted rape, and various scenes of teenagers referencing sexual activity. 💣 Occasional use of 1960s racial slurs, or dated slang. 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 There is one scene which features an attempted rape, described with no anatomical details. None of the sex scenes include much detail, but one has quasi-violent undertones. Blood and gore are always minimized, with more emphasis on how people react to the story.ove the plot forward). 🔪🔪🔪🔪 Various scenes of gang violence, stabbings and shootings, references to weapons. Written by Irving Shulman, based on the play conceived by Jerome Robbins Published Novemby Gallery Books (first printed in 1963) West Side Story has always been a romantic, almost overripe melodrama, and pulpy writing captures that atmosphere without making it overwrought. Some of the dialogue feels archaic and the writing melodramatic, but in the end this style fits. 🖋 🖋🖋 The story is written in that pulpy, mass market paperback style so popular in the 1960s, and for the most part it still works. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The author can’t capture the music and dancing of the musical, but he makes up for it with backstories that build on the plot in interesting ways.

West side story by irving shulman