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Frank McCourts Angela's Ashes si a genuine memoir and winner of the pulitzer prize. This dramatic stoey follows a poverty stricken, Catholic family, during the 1930's and 1940's in Ireland.The reader experiences a family's miserable life through the eyes of Frank McCourt's journal form childhood to adolescence shown through literary criticism, the author's style and theme. Most literary critics question the authenticity of McCourts Angela's Ashes. His work has been questioned because "readers encountered several mistakes in McCourts account"(Thompson). At a book signing in Limerick, McCourt learned that he gave Willie Harrell, one of the boys in the novel, a sister he never had(Jones). This mistake leads one to contemplate if frank might have made up a good portion of the book so as to keep the reader interested in the already repetitive story line.It is understandable why peopl