Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce

``Not only is this a highly engaging Joyce family biography--brightly written, scrupulously researched and full of intimate, little-known Joyceana--it also gives an important thrust to a scholarly opinion now gathering force: that far from being an insignificant factor in her husband's work, Nora was the inspiration for Ulysses 's Molly Bloom . . . and principal females in all James Joyce's other writings,'' praised PW . Photos. (June)