Pages A Memoir: Musings of a 75-year-old Woman, by Lila Greene

A Coney Island Grandmother and Mother's Love Poems to Life, the PERFECT Mother's Day Gift for Mothers, Grandmothers and Children of all Ages.

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) April 14, 2009 -- Author Lila Greene, mother of five, grandmother of eight, co-founder of the legendary Renta Yenta, has released Pages, A Memoir: Musings of a 75-year-old Woman (published by Wily Creative), a love story in poetry spanning a remarkable life.
Pages is a poignant story of an extraordinary woman's survival - raised by her grandmother in Coney Island during the Great Depression, Lila married Mel Greene, "the boy singer," who wound up on Sammy Davis Jr.'s management team and together they celebrated more than 50 years together.

Greene writes of surviving a downfall of income like the bailout some are experiencing now. She writes with remarkable clarity about the death of her beloved husband Mel, and was inspired after his death by her children and extended family to write her poetic stories. Lila Greene also co-founded the legendary Renta Yenta in 1973, performed at the original Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard in 1980 and is the author of Enter Renta Yenta, Advice from a Burnt-out Caterer, The Viagra Monologues, Memo from an Empty Nest and Grief.

After the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, she and her husband relocated to Boulder, Colorado where Lila hated the snow so much she began "Lila's Magical Matzoh Ball Soup" to help her survive the winters. She continues to live and write in Boulder, with her dog Rocky.
Pages is a wonderfully charming, honest and tender book from the heart, and will inspire readers to love their life and perhaps even write about it. Greene generously shares her wisdom, humor and life experience in poignantly written pieces that will tug at the heart and make one laugh, all in the same breath.

Pages is available at Boulder Bookstore, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and Borders. For more information, visit www.pages-lilagreene.com.

Pages A Memoir Endorsements:

"Lila Greene spins words into wisdom without strain or pretense. Music from line to line; some of it major, some of it minor, all of it melodic." -- Junior Burke, Chair, Writing & Poetics, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado.

"Pages A Memoir is an absolutely heart-opening book of poetry. To read the poems is to deepen understanding of the mysteries of the feminine and laugh over life's very ordinary vicissitudes set on a stage of profundity, love and often side-splitting humor. I wept with newly realizing the vulnerabilities of the human heart in the grand sweep of a woman's life. It is a book I put down and then I go right on thinking about it." -- Judith Mohling, MA, LPC, Boulder, Colorado.

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