When Ali McCain, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, it’s a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in England; to meet true intellectuals; and to glimpse the life he might have lived had his father—British rock star Gel McCain, legendary frontman of the Pale Fires—not abandoned him and his mother when he was a toddler.   But not long after he arrives at the storied campus, Ali is drawn into a dark, disorienting world where events grow curiouser and curiouser by the day. Trading on his father’s name, he gains entry into one of Oxford’s oldest and most selective secret societies, the Saracens. As he immerses himself in this rarified world, he inadvertently sets in motion a series of events that might culminate in disaster.   A mind-bending, literary house of mirrors, replete with bookish allusions and Easter eggs ranging from Brideshead Revisited to King Lear , The Rabbit Club is an ar