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Title: West Side Story by Irving Shulman ISBN: 0-671-72566-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It will blow your mind!
Comment: West Side Story by Irving Shulman is an excellent book about two rival street gangs in New York City. The Jets are the white gang; the Sharks are the Puerto Ricans. Barnardo, the leader of the Sharks, has a younger sister named Maria. Problems arise when Maria falls in love with Tony, a member of the Jets. I've seen the movie and read the book. I love them both.
Rating: 5
Summary: I give it 5 stars
Comment: Personally I think that this is proboly the best book I have ever read. This Story tells a tale based on a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Although the story is based on the dramatic story Romeo and Juliet, I find A West Side Story well writen and very touching. The book is set in New York City, and tells how two rival gangs (the Jets, and Sharks). The 2 gangs are fighting over a section of the city. When one member of the Sharks finds love in one of the Jets' sister, the Jet gets very angry. In a street fight the Shark kills his lovers' brother, the shark retreats to a local hide out. later that night the Shark is gunned down by a rival gang member. In the end the 2 gans realize that there is no reason to fight. I love the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: I ain't believin' this is still in print!!!
Comment: One big difference between a novel that is made into a movie and a novelization of an existing movie is that you can take the thing to work enjoy during lunch. I mean, the actual story you saw onscreen. Also, it's still there in the bookcase years later. The problem is that novelizations normally go out of print almost as soon as the second-run theaters stop running the flick. Maybe there's a new edition if the networks run the film, usually not. If not for the title, it would be too easy to write this book off based on its shortness, but you have to remember that the story itself only covers a few days. Also, in this book, our cast gets last names that aren't in the stage production or the film: Riff Lorton, Tony Wyzek, Bernardo and Maria Nunez, Chino Martin. One adult gets a real name--youth center operator Murray Benowitz--we used to only know him as "Glad Hand". Drugstore owner Doc doesn't get one, though. The cops--Schrank and Krupke--don't get first names either. One other thing this book proves--Jerome Preisler and Jack Gregory didn't invent the reverse process of the bringing of a story from the screen to the page. Like the play and the movie, this one is simple, but it's great.
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Title: Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story by Norris Houghton ISBN: 0440974836 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 August, 1965 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Making of West Side Story by Keith Garebian ISBN: 0889626529 Publisher: Mosaic Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:West Side Story (1961 Film Soundtrack) ASIN: B0000027WF Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 24 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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Title:West Side Story (Full Screen Edition) ASIN: B0000AM6IY Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.26 |
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Title:West Side Story (1997 Studio Cast) (First Complete Recording) ASIN: B000005BHB Publisher: Jay Records Pub. Date: 26 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $37.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $37.98 |
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