# The Giant

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- Book: [The Giant](https://www.bookquiver.com/youssef-daoudi/the-giant) ([The Giant.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/youssef-daoudi/the-giant.md))
- Authors: [Youssef Daoudi](https://www.bookquiver.com/youssef-daoudi)
- Publisher: First Second Books
- ISBN: 978-12-5080-594-2
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2025-05-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

From graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil: legendary filmmaker Orson Welles. Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over Hollywood. By twenty-three, Welles had revolutionized theatre and radio with The War of the Worlds; by twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his debut film, Citizen Kane. Yet four films and less than a decade later, his career suffered a spectacular collapse, and Welles, once the most promising director in America, was written off as a “would-be genius”—a bad bet in an increasingly money-conscious industry. In The Giant, Youssef Daoudi weaves together reality and mythology to create a radical new look at one of Hollywood’s most legendary figures and poses a question as timeless as Orson Welles himself: What happens when a true artist comes up against the rest of the world?