Philip Roth titled his 1973 work this, synonymous with the U.S. concept of a mythical magnum opus
Gravity s Rainbow 1973 Vineland 1990 
Mason Dixon 1997 and Against the Day 2006 ... After leaving Cornell Pynchon 
began to work on his first novel From February 1960 to .... one of the four major 
American novelists of his time along with Don DeLillo Philip Roth and Cormac 
McCarthy [DOC] [TLE] American novelist Philip Roth at work.