Take John Updike's Advice

Rabbit, Run is John Updike’s 1960 novel about a 26-year-old former high school basketball player chafing under the constraints of married life, fatherhood, and a job. When Harry abandons his wife and takes up with a prostitute, the local Episcopal pastor, Jack Eccles, makes himself Harry’s self-appointed savior.

Another pastor named Kruppenbach says bluntly to Eccles:

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