Riverside Drive Author:Louis Simpson Riverside Drive is the story of a young man who has come from an island to the mainland, where his romantic dreams clash with reality. And it is a love story. One afternoon on Riverside Drive, young Duncan Bell meets a girl named Mona. As a budding girl, then as a beautiful and sensual woman, she haunts Duncan as she haunts these pages. Riversid... more »e Drive takes its place immediately in the gallery of those modern love stories that haunt the reader with their obsessiveness and yet with a compelling poignancy.« less